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" Rdjaratndkaraya " that the king established a school in 

 every village and charged the priests who superintended 

 them to take nothing from the pupils for their trouble. 



He reigned four years, and was succeeded by his son 

 Parakrama Bahu III., who was crowned, according to the 

 " Dambadeni Asna" at Dambadeniya during the sowing 

 festival in the year 1824 of the Buddhist era, under the 

 name of Sarvajna Pandita Parakrama Bahu. He adorned 

 the city and — 



Brought forth the Tooth-relic from the Billa mountain (Beligala) 

 with great pomp and ceremony unto the noble city of Jambudoni. And 

 he caused a Tooth-relic house of great beauty to be built nigh unto the 

 palace, at great cost, seeing that he had a great desire to worship the 

 relic whenever he thought thereof, even during the three periods of 

 the day. And he raised a costly altar in the midst thereof and 

 covered it with a cloth of great value, and caused a receptacle for the 

 Tooth-relic to be cut out of a precious stone of great size ; and to 

 cover it he made a large casket of exceeding great beauty of precious 

 gems of divers colours ; and a second casket of great brightness made 

 he of five thousand nikhhas of gold to cover this ; and a third of 

 twenty-five thousand nikhhas of silver to cover the last.* 



According to the " Dambadeni Asna " the rock of Damba- 

 deni, on which the King Manabarana failed to erect any 

 conspicuous building, was cleared of jungle, and on it was 

 built a temple for the Tooth-relic, 22 cubits in height with 

 three stories, and surrounded by a wall 80 cubits high. 



And after he had caused the city to be decorated, commencing from 

 the Relic-house, he held the great feast of the Tooth-relic with great 

 honours.* And after the lord of the land offered unto the Tooth- 



relic the sixty-four royal ornaments, including his crown and his 



bracelets and such like f Round about the vihara Siri Vijaya- 



sundara, that the king his father had built, he raised lofty walls and 

 gates, and repaired and renewed the three-storied Relic-house. There 

 also he set the Tooth-relic of the great sage on a high and costly 

 throne. J 



* Mahawansa (English translation), LXXXIL, 7-15 (pp. 276-7). The 

 greater portion of this chapter is taken up with an account of the 

 exhibition of the Tooth- relic miracle. 



t Ibid, LXXXIL, 50 (p. 279). 



X Ibid, LXXXV., p. 291. Among the regulations of the temple was 

 that " every day an offering was made of 100,000 flowers, and every day of 

 a different kind." (Upham's Rdjaratndkaraya , p. 108.) 



