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Katugampola [originally Kadugampold], from the fact of 

 the district having been granted to the person who bore the 

 king's sword. 



Pitigal, owing to hdl-fritti (rice flour) having been found 

 \ in the crevices in the rock.* 



Giratalan, owing to an arecanut cutter (giraya) having 

 heen made and presented by the people to King Vijaya on 

 the occasion of his visit thither. 



Owing to the two duna trees growing in the field it 

 received the name of Duna-gaha-pattuva. 



\_Siyane Korale was so called owing to 100 persons having 

 assembled and held a marriage festival. 



Alut-Jcuruva, after the settlement of the new people from 

 the Solirata brought by Gaja Bahu after his victory.! 



Parana-huruva, on account of the residence of the old 

 inhabitants there.] 



Hewaivise, from the fact of 20 soldiers having been sent to 

 settle there by King Gaja Bahu. 



* A Kadaim-pota gives the following' interesting particulars: A 

 husbandman possessing much power, in the hope of becoming a 

 great man, thought within himself of raising an eminence by heaping 

 up paddy, upon which he intended to build a palace, to command a 

 view of the sea and the ships and boats sailing thereon. With this object 

 Tie constructed irrigation works, cultivated large tracts of paddy land, 

 and having collected the paddy, heaped it up in the shape of a high rock. 

 He ordered his son to go to the summit, and asked him whether he could see 

 the ocean and the sailing of ships. The son, fearing lest he would lose the 

 heap of paddy, ascended to the top and replied that he could not, although 

 he actually could see the ocean. The father, enraged at the disappointment, 

 -kicked down the heap, which was scattered all over the face of the country. 

 The paddy, which had decayed and become reduced to flour Qpiti), having 

 been found strewn on the meadows and rocks (gal), the country PUigal- 

 rata was so called. 



f In the reign of Wankanasika Tissa, 110 A.D., an incursion was made by 

 the Malabars, headed by the king in person, who carried away 12,000 Sin- 

 halese as slaves to Mysore. Gaja Bahu, 113 A.D., avenged the outrage by 

 invading the Soli, or Chola, country with an expedition which sailed from 

 . Jaffnapatam, and brought back not only the rescued Sinhalese captives but 

 also a multitude of Solians, whom the king established in various parts of 

 the Island. (Tennent's Ceylon, Vol. I., pp. 396-7 ; Rdjawaliya, p. 229 ; 

 Tumour's Epitome, &c, p. 21.) 



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