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The Yatipila assemblage, crying " hiyoyi" 



Danced, reciting horn-pulling songs 



As they sang their scornful ditties ; 



(The Udupila party) stood silent in their shame. 



Enraged at his defeat Palanga cries " Cut down and bring me hither 

 hooks from all places where hooks may be had" (29). Collecting 7,000 

 oxen and loading them with seven amunam of arekanuts, he sent men to 

 bring andara* wood (30). Traversing the hill-country ( Udarata), they 

 rested in Hevdheta and Hanguranketa ; thence through Maturata to tl the 

 city," and on through Tunkinda to Kadawata ; passing Wellawdya and 

 Kurugama by winding paths they crossed the ferry at Yadalangamuva, 

 and spread their gunny bags (of arekanuts) in Usangoda (32). Skirting 

 " the two ponds" they went through il the city " to Kataragama (temple); 

 there they made offerings and started afresh the next morning (33), 

 Arriving at Katagamuva in Mdwatkada, and passing over " the tank built 

 of gods," they beheld the villages Mirdvild and Sitrdvila, where they 

 rested after crossing the Kirindi-ganga (34). Proceeding, they traversed 

 the great salt pans of Koholankada, crossed the Walawe-ganga to 

 Mdgama; thence through Dolos-giruva and Mdtota (Matara) to 

 Devundara (Dondra), where they opened their bags afresh (35). 



Learning that they had come from Mdyd-rata in search of andara 

 wood, the natives provided a thousand andara sticks in exchange for the 

 seven amunam of dried arekanuts (36, 37). Stanzas 38 and 39 describe 

 the return route, through Mdtota, across the Walawe-ganga to Mdgama, 

 and past Buttala and Palatupdna to Andun-oruva and Kebilitta; 

 thence on through Kavuddva, Mdrdva, Mudavapun, and Bdhdre\ till they 

 struck Dambagalla and the Kotabdva road, where they rested awhile. 

 At length they reach Wellassa, and emptied out the thousand andara 

 sticks on the ground. 



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