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Lankawata baesa yassappraleya kota manusiya wasa kota 

 ekata patra rajeyakala Wijaya rajeyan wahansege wansa 

 daramparayen a Lakdiwa eka rajeya kala Parakrama Bahu 

 pit himiyanan wahanse rajawa wanseya mattatada pawatna 

 kaemaetiwa purgwa rajeyan kota a paridden mae Sinhapure- 

 yata yawa beananuwan wahansegenwa tamanwahanse nae- 

 mula hitidi pata bandawa saestreyehi nipuna karawa aeti kota 

 wadar a rajeya sanatha kalaturen swuregusthawu kal hi mema 

 kramayen abhisurkta wu Wijeya Bahu wahanseta paeraedae 

 duskamarttiyayan raja drohi wae Lankawata kala wilupat 

 sadha Wijaya yan taen nawatsetehi taba dun rajayehi 

 himiyanan wahanse abhisikta wae saha wotunu ambaranin 

 saedi sinhasana rudhawa daskankalawunta abhiwurdhi wuwa 

 maenaweyi sita wadara Wijaya yan taennawan ruan dam 

 wuyehi patan sri saerira raksayehi siti henut pera parid- 

 denma Kalinga paramparawata rajeya sadhadun seyinut me 

 kunge wansa paramparawada. Wijaya rajayan wahanse kere 

 patan Kalinga wanseyatama duskamkota a heyinut me kala 

 duskamata tu. 



(Translation.) 



(First eight lines illegible.) 



form of the Illustrious Kalinga Chakrawarti race, 



the eldest son of the king Sinha Bahu, having come from 

 Kalinga to Lanka, and conquered the Yakkhus, and made it 

 habitable for man, and brought the kingdom under one 

 umbrella (sceptre) ; descending in the direct line from the 

 race of the illustrious Wijaya Raja, having made the island of 

 Lanka into one kingdom, his revered Majesty Parakrama Bahu 

 wished to perpetuate the royal race. After the manner of 

 former kings, he sent to Sinhapura and fetched his nephew, 

 and during his own lifetime decked him with the fillet 

 (of royalty), instructed him in the science of war, and 

 adopted him. After the kingdom had been firmly estab- 

 lished at the time that (Parakrama Bahu) died, (there 

 arose) wicked ministers who were traitors to His Majesty 

 Wijaya Bahu — who had been anointed king in the same 



