No. 29.— 1884.] 



BEL1GALA. 



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No known record indicates the exact period at which Beligala was 

 first enriched with the palaces, temples, and dagabas, inclosed by 

 huge ramparts, ruins of which still attest its former splendour. 

 But it is reasonable to assign the credit to Wijaya Bahu III. in the 

 absence of other evidence, on the strength of the information to be 

 derived from the i( Rajaratnakara." ( Vide extract No. ii.) 



It is said that the son and successor of Wijaya Bahu III., 

 Kalikala Sahitya Pandita Parakrama Bahu III. (1267-1301 a.d.), 

 improved the buildings on Beligala, repairing the old ones, and 

 adding anew pirivena, which was known by the name of Buwaneka 

 Bdhupirivena, after its constructor. ( Vide extracts Nos.vi. and viii.) 



He subsequently brought back the relics from Beligala to his 

 capital " Jambudroni " (Dambadeniya), where he placed them in a 

 mandiroya erected for the purpose near his palace. ( Vide 

 extracts Nos. v. and vii.) In the " Bajaratnakara" {vide 

 extract No. iii.) it is said that he secured the relics in a tooth- 

 relic house named Wijayasundardrdmaya, constructed by him near 

 his palace. But the "Mahawansa" and the "Pujawaliya" state 

 that the Wijayasundardrdmaya was built by his father Wijaya 

 Bahu III., and that new buildings were added to it by 

 Parakrama Bahu III. (1314-1319 a.d.), in one of which the 

 relics were placed after they had been brought from Beligala. 

 ( Vide extracts Nos. iv., v., and vii.) 



From Dambadeniya the relics had been carried to Yapahu by 

 Bhuvaneka Bahu I. (1303-1314 a.d.), and had passed into the 

 hands of the Fandians, from whom they were finally recovered by 

 Parakrama Bahu III. Their subsequent history, though full of 

 interest, need not here be recorded. 



Extracts. 

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Translation. 



The King Kirfcl Nissanka, who came from Kalinga, built the 

 Ruwanweli Ddyeba at Pojonnaruwa, and added a spire to it, and 



