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stood, — when did it occur? If the whole of the inscrip- 

 tion refers to one event, the mention of the King of Jaff napatam 

 limits our field of inquiry considerably. But this is by no 

 means certain. In none of the passages from Couto that I 

 have translated above is there any reference to the King of 

 Jaffnapatam ; and in the passages in Faria y Sousa, Bocarro, 

 Sa e Menezes, where he is mentioned, I have failed to discover 

 any connection with Simao Pinhao or Sabaragamuwa. On 

 the other hand, in the passages in these writers, where events 

 in Sabaragamuwa are described, our hero's name does not 

 occur ; nor have we any account of an incident correspond- 

 ing to that which the inscription commemorates. 



The Sinhalese tradition mentioned by Mr. Skeen in the 

 extract I have quoted at the beginning of this Paper only 

 introduces a fresh element of confusion ; for, according to 

 Baldseus* and van Rheede in Valentyn,f Kuruviti Ralahami, 

 which I take to be identical with Kuruviti Bandara, was the 

 title of the renegade Antonio Barreto,J the prince or " king ,T 

 of Uva referred to by Couto in the extracts given above. 

 Now, the miserable ending of this man at the hands of some 

 Lascarins, while lying on a bed sick and wounded in the 

 mountain hamlet to which he had fled after the defeat of the 

 confederates by Constantino de Sa in Sabaragamuwa, is told 

 us by Sa e Menezes in his work ;§ and there we have no 

 mention of Simao Pinhao (who was almost certainly dead at 

 that time), nor were the circumstances attending Barreto's 

 death such as to call for self-glorification on the part of his 

 slayer. And yet, curiously enough, in close juxtaposition to 

 this account of Barreto's defeat and death we have a descrip- 

 tion of the final downfall of the kingdom of Jaffnapatam and 

 the capture and execution of the tyrant Sangili. 



* Ceylon, chapters XI.-XIV. f Ceylon, p. 279. 



% Beside Couto and the two Dutch writers named, see, regarding this 

 remarkable man, Bocarro. chapter CXIV.; Reb. de Ceylan (in C. A. S. 

 Journal, XL), chapter IL, &c.; Ove G-jedde's diary, passim ; C. A. S. Journal. 

 XIII , p. 136. — D. W. F. § Chapter VI. 



