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Padawiya to that which you quote, which contains no reference 

 whatever to the construction of a " spillwater " that is mentioned in 

 the Pali and Sinhalese editions. 



Some discussion followed : — 



Mr. A. Mendis, Mudaliyar, who was unavoidably prevented at 

 the last moment from attending, in a note addressed- to the Honorary 

 Secretary, disagreed with the identification of Panduwas Nuwara 

 with the site in the Kurunegala District close to Hettipola. It is 

 doubtful that it was in the North-Western Province at all. If it was 

 different from Upatissa Nuwara it could not have been very far away 

 from it. Now, according to the Mahdwansa, Upatissa Nuwara stood 

 north of Anuradhapura. Besides, it is Anuradhapura that was situated 

 on Kolom or Kadamba-oya, not Upatissa Nuwara, which, according to 

 the Pujdwaliya, was in a division of the country called Elsera (perhaps 

 identical with " Ela Hatara Nuwara "), and situate (according to the 

 Mahdvmnsa) on a river called Gambhira-nadi. Moreover, there is 

 also a village Moragolla and another called Moragoda, near Elagomuwa, 

 in Nuwarakalawiya of the North-Central Province. Great care 

 should therefore be taken in deciding the sites of these ancient cities. 



Mr. C. M. Fernando said that he felt inclined to discredit Mudaliyar 

 Jayatilaka's theory in regard to the identity of the ruins in question 

 with the ancient city of Panduwas Nuwara. Apart from the reasons 

 adduced by Mr. Parker, the discovery within the dagoba among other 

 things of a Buddhistic rosary, known as the Namagunamdla, is significant. 

 In the last number of the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Great 

 Britian there is a letter from Colonel Waddell on the subject of the 

 Buddhist rosary. It is established that the use of beads was only 

 known to later and not to primitive Buddhists ; therefore the 

 conclusion seems warrantable that the relics found in the dagoba were 

 enshrined there at a period several centuries later than that of King 

 Panduwas Deva. 



Mr. Harward said that he had recently visited Panda-vewa. The 

 map issued by the Survey Department gave a wrong idea of the 

 neighbourhood representing the ancient tank as still in existence, and 

 giving an altogether imaginary course to the river which formerly 

 supplied it with water. Besides the ruins described by Mr. Modder 

 there are interesting remains in the extensive rocks adjoining the 

 bund. He hoped that the site would be thoroughly examined by the 

 Archaeological Survey. 



5. Mr. Joseph read the following Papen: — 



