No. 34.— 1887.] 



POLONNAKUWA. 



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kotae pera rajun nobada ayagena drastakala Lanka wasayinta 

 pas awurududeka aya haerae hawurudupata pas tulabharayak 

 di nam gam wahal sarak pamunu parapuren ran ruan was- 

 trabheranadi boho wastu di suapat karawa kaeti ada haemae 

 kalatamae haerae wal maha wae tanae pranayinta abhaya di 

 tun raj aya paedae kunu kotae sialu jala durga giri durga 

 wana durga panka durga ha gam bim bala loka sasana 

 samurdha kotae yudhas eyin siywranga senanga pirawara 

 Damba diu waedae [dwanda] yudha sena yudha ilwa noladin 

 Chola Pandiadi raja daruwan wela genae ewu ran aengili ha 

 raja kanya kawan ha panduru daekae jaya sthamba karawa 

 Lakdiu waedae milowa saturan naeti baewin paraloa saturan 

 dinam hai sita swadesa paradesa yehi boho satra namwa 

 kaprukse saraha maha dan pawatwa dalada patra dhatun 

 wahanseta urehi da Wirabahu maha panan wahanse ha du 

 Sarbbangasundarin wahanse ha puda dedena wahanse gala- 

 wana pinisa ghanaran dagobak karawa silamaya wata geya 

 Nissanka lata mandapaya Nissanka dalada geya karawa 

 ananta wastu parittiyaga kotae puj a karawa boho gam bim 

 werawaesun puda wadala paridden matuwana raja darua 

 nudu raksha karanu manawi dahamanam me mulu lo 

 rasaganneyae sita de Iowa sapat ada rini raekaneyae matu- 

 wana raja wirun mese saganneyae Kalinga Lakindu Nisaka 

 rjwa gunawanneyae. 



(Sloka.) (Translation.) 



His Majesty the Illustrious Sanga Bo Wiraraja Nissanka 

 Malla Apratimalla Kalinga Chakrawarti, who was born at 

 Sinhapura in the Kalinga country, the son of his Illustrious 

 Majesty King Jayagopa and of her Illustrious Majesty Queen 

 Parvati, who was of the illustrious A'kasachari Chakrawarti 

 race, and belonged to the line of the kings of the Okkaka 

 dynasty, whose virtues and high qualities are innumerable ; 

 [His Majesty] having succeeded to the throne and been 

 anointed and crowned, and become king of kings, united all 

 Lanka under one sceptre. He conferred upon the inhabi- 

 tants of Lanka a five-year's remission of those taxes which 



