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death of Wijaya, the brothers of his successor's queen came to 

 Ceylon, and settled down at certain enumerated towns, selected 

 by them for the purpose, over which Wijaya and his chiefs had 

 previously ruled. This list of towns, as given at Mahavaihsa, p. 56, 

 which, it will be observed, runs from north to south, is Ramagona, 

 Uruwela, Anuradha, Wijita, Dighayu, and Rohana. In all pro- 

 bability one of these is the former capital, Tambapanni. A town 

 in the former list, Upatissa, is omitted, for the good reason that 

 the King, Panduwasa Dewa, himself lived at it at that time 

 (Mak., pp. 54, 55) ; and three not in that list are included — 

 Ramagona, Dighayu, and Rohana. If the ancient capital is 

 included among the six towns, it must evidently be one of these 

 three ; and it may further be said that if the capital is not one of 

 these three, then the list is most probably inaccurate. 



As the list reads from north to south in the case of five of the 

 six towns, it may be presumed that the sixth one is taken in the 

 same order. Ramagona was therefore further north than Uruwela, 

 which is equivalent to saying that it was in the Northern Province. 

 Wijaya's city being in the South, Ramagona is plainly not that 

 town. 



Dighayu is in Eastern Ceylon, in the Batticaloa District ; it is 

 not near the coast, and it is, moreover, evidently named after its 

 founder, who must have been another of Wijaya's chiefs. 



Rohana (or Magama), therefore, alone remains to be identified 

 with Tambapanni. ( See, also, Note 2.) 



Note 2. 



The inscriptions on the two octagonal pillars near the east 

 end of the embankment at Tissawaewa, are as follows, each in 

 one line : — 



I. A'satisaha rajakaya gamemicaditi binake. 



At the royal village of A'satissa the heresy 

 was broken up. 

 II. Siddham. Yage Dhamasabaye nama Samga ca 

 Tamane nama micaditika jana acataye no heki 



ye- 



Hail ! The Assembly named Dhammasabha 

 and the Community named Tamana, having 



cut off heretical persons, cannot 



" No hekiye" may possibly be intended for 44 no 

 pakiye," 4 not siding with them.' 

 These inscriptions are apparently of the same date as . the 

 Kirinde inscription {Ancient Inscriptions, No. 57), and com- 

 memorate the suppression of the schism also referred to in that. 



