No. 60. — 1908.] couto : history of ceylo^." 



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desiring to ally himself by marriage with him, and replied to 

 him favourably, sending him many compliments. And after 

 the exchange of visits on both sides he sent him a daughter for 

 himself, with a very large retinue of ladies and maidens, and 

 a number of other daughters of noblemen for those of his 

 company, the nuptials being celebrated between them all with 

 great solemnities ; thenceforward they frequently went to 

 and fro and interchanged communications, many persons 

 crossing over to live in that island, principally workmen of 

 every craft, and agriculturists with their plows, seed, cattle, 

 and everything else necessary for human life. With this that 

 island began to increase, and the interior to become populated 

 in such manner that great and beautiful cities and towns were 

 built. 



And because those people there had been degraded, those of 

 the opposite coast called them Gallas, which is the same as 

 "banished" 1 . That prince, seeing that the affairs of that 

 island were increasing so much, in titled himself emperor of 

 the island of Lancao ; albeit foreigners also called it Illenare, 

 which in the Malavar language signifies " the kingdom of the 

 island " 2 , which is the second name that it had, And as 

 these banished men spoke the Tanacarim language, which was 

 their own, after they had united in marriage with the women 

 of the opposite coast, who spoke Malavar (which is the most in 

 use that there is on that coast of Canara), the two languages 

 becoming mixed came to form that which they use nowadays, 

 albeit the most speak pure Malavar 3 . This king lived twenty- 

 five years 4 , and having no children left the kingdom to a 

 brother of his, whom while he was alive he had sent to beg of his 

 father : because by-and-by, as soon as he had established his 

 residence in that country, they communicated and traded 

 with one another. 



This brother that succeeded him 5 had many sons, in whose 

 descendants that kingdom continued for nine hundred years 6 

 without going out of the line. When these had passed it came 

 under the rule of one called Dambadine Pandar Pracura Ma- 

 bago, or Bao 7 , of whom we shall treat presently. From this 



1 Perhaps Couto means Tarn, kdlddi — " wanderer," or he may have 

 been thinking of the Kallar tribe. 



2 See supra, p. 30, note 5 . 



3 There are almost as many errors as lines in this sentence. 



4 The Sinhalese chronicles say thirty-eight. 



5 It was really his brother Sumitta's son Panduvasadeva who suc- 

 ceeded Vijaya. 



6 Nearly double that period, according to the Sinhalese chronology. 



7 Dambadeni Parakrama Bahu II., 1240 or 1267 a.d. 



p 36-08 



