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Four chief entrances (wasal doratu) into the city, with gold and 

 silver and cloth arches surmounting them, the arches being 

 decorated with various kinds of flags, dhaja (flags with flaps), 

 pata-ge (cloth dolls ?) having bells suspended to them. 



With the sound of bells (mini-gosdvd) came the neighing of 

 horses, the trumpeting of elephants (kuncha-ndda), and the 

 five kinds of music (pancha turiya-ndda)fi 



A company of women decked in all the female ornaments, like 

 goddesses. 



The royal ministers like those of Iswara. 

 Men speaking the Tamil, Lada, and Grantha languages. . , 

 Men possessing a knowledge of medicine and the practice of 

 charms. 



300 great warriors or powerful soldiers. 



900 officers or councillors (duggana-al) of Tri Sinhala. 



9,000 sculptors (gal-waduwo). 



1,000 masons {ulu-waduwo). 



12,000 carpenters (dandu-waduwo). 



20,000 blacksmiths (navan-dana achdri), 



8,000 dhobies. . 



24,000 men, women, and children (Jcuddweru), 



2]lacs and 68 chiefs (mudcdi-veru). 



3,000 dancers and tom-tom beaters (natana gasana hevawdyo). 

 Fruit trees of sorts (which are enumerated). 

 600 wells (ura-liri). 



900 ponds (patas; pokuna), streams, and rivulets (ela-dola). 



When Panduwas was reigning seated on his throne (pandapid asna) 

 •seven cubits high, like unto Sakraya, he saw in a dream the form of a 

 devil in a blaze of fire which extended a gawa in height, wearing a hat 

 four gaw in height, holding a club of enormous size, and emitting a 

 flame from his mouth, at the sight of which he fainted away, and on 

 regaining his senses fell ill.f 



At Panduwas Nuwara Miiller found a " fragment of a pillar in the 

 corner of an opened dagoba with an inscription in five lines." He doubts 

 that the tradition that this place is said to bear its name from Pandu- 

 was, the nephew of Wijaya, is correct in this point. " At any rate 

 there are no remains of any kind that point to such a remote period."^ 



* The five sorts of music are said to be the five tones or kinds of music 

 produced from the various sorts of tom-toms or native drums, each yielding 

 a different sound. Tom-toms are used to accompany dancing, singing, 

 and performances on wind instruments. (See Skeen's Adam's Peak, pp. 157, 

 319. Steele's translation of Kusa Jdtakaya, Notes, p. 207.) 



f Then follows an account of his illness, supposed to be the result of 

 devi dossa, the curse of the gods, and of the manner in which he was 

 healed, &c, for which see " Kurunegala Rocks." 



X Ancient Inscriptions, p, 59. 



