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left no sons, and the government of the kingdom devolved 

 upon a chaqatar, a wise man, and morally upright 1 . The 

 first thing that this man did was to send to seek the princes, 

 who were wandering in exile, having now lost their mother 2 ; 

 and being brought before him, he received them as lords, 

 forthwith swearing in as emperor the elder one, who intitled 

 himself Maha Pracura Mabago 3 , and who would now be six- 

 teen years old 4 , and married him to a daughter of the ruler of 

 Candia, his vassal and relative 5 ; and to the other brother, 

 who intitled himself Madune Pracura Mabago, he gave the 

 dominion of the Four Corlas 6 . This Maha Pracura trans- 

 ferred his court to the city of Cota, which he founded anew 7 

 after the same manner and for the same reason as the kings of 

 the Decan so long afterwards founded the city of Xarbedar 8 , 

 — as we have related in the fourth chapter of the tenth book of 

 the Fourth Decade, of the time in which the Moors conquered 

 the Decan, —and ordained that all his heirs should be crowned 

 there in order to aggrandize it. This king had no son, but 

 had a daughter 9 , who was married to Cholca Raya of the race 

 of the ancient kings 10 , by whom he had a son, whom his grand- 

 father swore in as heir to the throne. In the time of this king 

 there arrived at the city of Cota from the opposite coast a 



1 The elder Visidagama is meant. (The word changatar was applied 

 by Portuguese writers to the Buddhist priests : it perhaps represents Sin. 

 sa'ngatdrya, " the venerable one of the assembly." On p. 284 infra it 

 is spelt sangatar). 



2 The Rdjavaliya tells us nothing of Sunetra Devi's death. 



3 Sri Parakrama Bahu VI. (? 1415 : see Rep. on Keg. Dist. 81). 



4 So also the Rdjavaliya (68). 



5 According to the Rdjavaliya his bride was a princess from Kiravella 

 (? Kiraveli pattu in Beligal korale). 



6 From the Paravisandesa it would seem that Parakrama Bahu VI. 

 actually had a brother named Parakrama of Mayadunu (see Alwis's 

 Des. Cat. 216). 



7 Kotte or Jayawardhanapura was really founded by Alakesvara f 

 though Parakrama Bahu VI. greatly enlarged and improved it (see 

 Rdjavaliya 66, 68 ; Mahdvansa 320, 321 ; C. A. S. Jl. xviii. 285, 304). 



8 Bldar in the Deccan, which was founded not "so long afterwards," 

 but some seventy years later. The reason given by Couto for its found- 

 ing is that a king saw a hare chasing a dog — a widespread fable (see 

 Knox's Hist. Rel. 58 ; C. Lit. Reg. iii. 376 ; Sewell's Forg. Emp. 19, 299). 



9 Ulakuda Devi (see Rdjdv. 70 ; Macready's Sela L. S., st. xcix.-ci.). 



10 The Sinhalese chronicles do not state who Ulakuda D6vi's husband 

 was. He may have been the minister Nallurutanaya (see Macready's 

 Sela L. S., Introd., st. xciv.-xcv.). 



