No. 29.— 1S84.] 



BELIGALA. 



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forests, mountains, and streams of water, passing through 

 vast forests and over huge rocks, and being unable to protect it 

 even there, buried it uader ground, and betook themselves to the 

 Soli and Pandi kingdoms. The king named Kalinga Wijaya 

 Bahu invited them to return to Maya Region, and having learnt 

 that the tooth-relic and the bowl -relic had not been destroyed, 

 he was exceedingly joyful, and instantly set out and went to 

 Kotmale, attended by a great company of monks and his forces, 

 making many offerings and festivities, and took the tooth-relic 

 and the bowl-relic, and was overjoyed as if he had obtained the 

 Chakkravarti (universal kingdom), brought it [down to Damba- 

 deniya, where it was worshipped daily*], causing many offerings 

 to be made in each village. Then the king thinking " I will 

 build a palace for the tooth-relic and the bowl-relic, that they 

 may not be destroyed in a (future) conquest," made a strong- 

 hold by raising ramparts, masonry works, and gates around 

 Beligala, making it very secure, so that no human being could 

 enter it, unless through the air (sky); constructed an incom- 

 parable tooth-relic house (Dalada-geya) like a divine mansion 

 descended from heaven on the top of the mountain. And he 

 caused to be built splendid monasteries for the priests, furnished 

 with great and small golden tile buildings, walks and water tanks, 

 and with great pomp conveyed the tooth-relic and the bowl-relic 

 into the palace, and dedicated the monasteries to dignitaries 

 engaged in the protection of the sacred relics, and settled a sys- 

 tem of almsgiving for them, and ordered daily offerings and pro- 

 cessions to be made, &c. 



(iii.) — Rajaratnak&raya. 



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