No. 34. — 1887.] 



POLONNARTTWA. 



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Oka was raja parapuren a Kalinga Sri Parakrama Bahu 

 Chakrawartin wahanse Lanka dipayata eka mangala dipayak 

 men paena Lankatan kaprasa maya kotae samaeta Lanka 

 dwipaya apawaraka grahayakse sambadha kotae Sita Chotta 

 Gandadin ha sangra martita Maha Dambadia Maha piriwerin 

 waeda nano sa rajadin rata bim haerae walwadanawun bala 

 kulunin abhayadi Dambadi waeda prattimallayak hu no 

 daekae jaya sthamba karawa naewata Lak diu waedae boho 

 kal naesi tubu Lankawaha sakwala Dambadiwae Lakdiwae 

 tanhi tanhi sastra karawa nanose yajakayanta apamana wastu 

 widha kotae epamana kinudu satutunowae hawurudupata 

 sataratula bharayak naegi ran man wastra baranadm lo 

 waessa dilindu haerae lo sasun waeda kotae kaya krichcha 

 winoda pinisa waedae hindina asanayai. 



(Sloka.) (Translation.) 



His Majesty Kalinga Chakrawarti Parakrama Bahu, who 

 was a descendant of the Okkaka race, having made all 

 Lanka's isle to appear like a festive island, having made all 

 Lanka like unto a wishing tree, having made all Lanka like 

 unto an incomparably decorated house, having subjugated 

 in war Sita, Choda, Ganda, &c, — went to Maha Dambadi wa 

 with great hosts ; and seeing that because of his coming 

 kings and others left their countries and came to him for 

 protection, he treated them with kindness and stilled their 

 fears ; and having met with no rival after his landing in 

 Dambadiwa, he erected pillars of victory, and again came 

 to Lanka's isle. Lanka having been neglected for a long 

 time, he erected almshouses at different places throughout 

 the whole of Dambadiwa and Ceylon ; and on his return 

 spent ever so much treasure on mendicants. Not being 

 content with all this, he determined on a distribution of alms 

 four times in every year, and by [giving] gold, jewels, cloth, 

 ornaments, &c, having extinguished the poverty of the 

 inhabitants of the world, and done good to the world and to 

 religion, — this is the seat on which he sat to allay bodily 

 weariness. 



