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such an effect that she got him to cancel all the proposals he 

 had made with Madune, placing her son's affairs once again in a 

 more hopeful position ; and it pleased God that this lady 

 arrived before the matrimonial alliances with Tribuly were 

 consummated ; for had it not been so all would have been lost. 



These matters having become known, Dom Duarte Deca 

 was deposed, and in his place succeeded Fernao Carvalho, 

 alcaide mor of Columbo 1 . The king, his father Tribuly 

 Pandar, and the prince of the Corlas (who by the intervention 

 of the old queen swore a new league) got ready to prosecute the 

 war, begging the assistance of fifty soldiers from Fernao 

 Carvalho, who offered them to them, and they immediately 

 sent him five hundred cruzados for their expenses. All being 

 in the field, when the king sent to ask the captain for the 

 soldiers he sent answer asking to be excused, saying that some 

 Malavar vessels were cruising off the coast of Columbo, and 

 that he must go after them, lest they should pillage the country : 

 and so he went off without sending them either soldiers or 

 money. The king, seeing how he went from bad to worse 

 with these captains, yet did not desist from the enterprise, 

 and ordered it to be prosecuted. The confederates entered 

 the territories of Madune, and defeated his captains many 

 times, and brought him to such a state, that he sent to beg 

 mercy of his brother, who as he was a good man showed it to 

 him, and they made a new peace, with the carrying out of the 

 marriages that had been agreed 2 . In this state we leave 

 these things. 



1 This was only until the viceroy should appoint a successor (see 

 p. 165). 



2 The Rdjdvaliya (81) says : — " The princess whom the aforesaid queen , 

 daughter of Mayadunne, bore in dangerous labour, was given in marri- 

 age to king Vidiye's son by his first bed. It should be noted that the 

 name of this son was prince Vijayapala, afterwards known as king 

 Dharmapala." The words italicized are not in the original, and are 

 erroneous. (According to Valentyn's version, Ceylon 76, Dharma- 

 pala had a younger brother named Vijayapala.) The version of the 

 Rdjdvaliya translated by Valentyn (Ceylon 79) says : — " About this 

 time there died the emperor's mother, or the wife of Videa Rajoe, who, 

 having learnt of her death, whilst he was still at Pellenda, made peace 

 with the king of Majadune, and thereafter married his daughter Maha 

 Tiquiri Bandara, beside this, in order to render the bonds of friendship 

 so much the stronger, giving in marriage to his son Jaja Palla Astana, 

 the lawful brother of the emperor's, a niece of the king's, Coeda 

 Tiquiri Bandara. After the consummation of these marriages, he made 

 little of the king of Majadune, or of the Portuguese ; but on the con- 

 trary began to do them harm, and gave out that he was the rightful 

 heir to the empire." 



