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2 According to Gunasekara, some of the manuscripts give no date 

 for this event. The mode of expression in a professedly Buddhist work, 

 as well as the fact that the date is absurdly incorrect, would lead one to 

 suspect a later interpolation. It is curious that in Valentyn's version 

 an even later date, 1530, is given. I cannot explain how either date 

 has been arrived at. 



3 A curiously vague expression : the writer, apparently, did not 

 know where the " Portuguese settlement " was. 



4 It will be noticed that Valentyn's version gives nothing of this 

 professed report, which certainly reads rather suspiciously, like the 

 speeches that Correa invents for the occasion (see supra, B 10). 



5 So Gunasekara' s translation reads : but I think the words mud- 

 dirappalam arakku should be rendered " grape arrack," i.e., wine. 



6 The four were apparently Vijaya Bahu, Rayigam Bandars, 

 Sakalakala Valla of Udugampola, and Taniya Valla of Madampe. 



7 Valentyn's version (B 14) has " the king of Oedoegampala." It 

 is probable that " Chakrayuddha " was a title borne by Sakalakala 

 Valla. 



B 16. 



Yalpana-Vaipava-Malai 1 33, 48. 

 [1506.] 



They [the Parangkis] first came to Langka in the year Pari- 

 thapi corresponding with the Saka year 1428, 2 in the reign of 

 king Parak-kirama-vaku 3 of Koita, and having obtained his 



permission they commenced to trade in his territories 



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The Parangkis commenced to visit Ceylon in the reign of king 

 Parakkirama-vaku of Kotta, who in the Saka year 1428 gave them 

 permission to trade with his subjects. „ 



1 The extracts are taken from Brito's translation (1879). This 

 history of Jaffna, though written only as late as 1736, is of some value 

 as embodying early traditions. 



2 That is, 1506. 



3 Parakrama Bahu. 



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