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of Hatthigiri (Kurunegala), and a beautiful parivena, which 

 was called Maha Mahinda Bahu.* The remains of the royal 

 founder were buried in the Maha Vihare. 



On a visit to Hatthigiri (Kurunegala) by Vijaya Bahu IV., 

 son of Parakrama Bahu II., during the lifetime of his 

 father — 



He caused an excellent image-house of three stories to be built, and 

 a great image of Buddha to be made there. And then he caused a 

 beautiful likeness of his uncle to be made, and adorned it with every 

 royal ornament, and set it up in the same place. To the image-house, 

 as also to the image of his uncle, he dedicated fruitful lands that were 

 able to produce what was lawful for their support, and many servants 

 and attendants ; and the prince called it (the establishment) Bhu- 

 vaneka Bahu Parivena, after his uncle. Then he turned it into a city 

 filled with people, both men and women, and surrounded it with a 

 wall and a moat and such-like works. f 



King Parakrama Bahu IV., also called Pandita Parakrama 

 Bahu, owing to his scholarship, who began his reign at 

 Kurunegala in 1295 A.D. — 



Caused a three-storied temple of the tooth-relic, of great beauty, to 

 be built within the court-yard of the King's palace, with beautiful 

 walls and pillars and paintings, surmounted with spires of gold, and 

 adorned with door panels also of gold. And he covered the ceiling 

 thereof with cloths of silk and the like, of divers colours, which was 

 adorned with beautiful chains of gold and silver and of pearls, hung 

 on every side. And when he had fixed a beautiful curtain-wall of 

 silk, he raised a splendid throne and overlaid it with exquisite 

 coverings. And this covering he adorned all round with rows of vases 

 of gold and silver. And then, with great reverence, he placed thereon 

 the casket of the tooth-relic and the casket of the bowl-relic, and 

 commenced to hold daily, in a worthy manner, great rejoicings in 

 connection with the relic feast of the Teacher. It was a feast that 

 delighted the world — smelling with perfumes of divers flowers and the 

 incense of smoking censers ; served with all kinds of meat and drink ; 

 pleasing the ear with the joyous music played on the five kinds of 

 instruments, and made pleasant by the songs and the dances of divers 

 players. And he made offerings to the tooth-relic of houses and lands, 

 of men servants and maid servants, and of elephants, oxen, buffaloes, 

 and the like.| 



* Mahawansa (English translation), chap. LXXXV., p. 290. 

 f Ibid, chap. LXXXVIIL, p. 305. 

 % Ibid, chap. XC, pp. 316-17. 



