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wars and troubles 1 (whom the captains of Columbo persecuted, 

 he having in the beginning perhaps some small faults : because 

 if he came to bite, it was because they worried him). And 

 after his death began the great troubles of that island, and the 

 kingdom of Cota was lost ; and there were so many sieges of 

 that fortress and of that of Columbo, as will be seen in the 

 course of the Eighth, Ninth, and Tenth Decades : for Madune 

 had never grown so impudent had Tribuli Pandar lived, it 

 being he that broke his power and abated his pride and tyranny. » 



Madune seeing that Tribuli Pandar was dead, and the grand 

 chamberlain of the king of Cota, and his brother-in-law 

 Alanca Modeliar and the son of the black captain prisoners, 

 and out of favour with the Portuguese (all brought about by 

 his industry to this end), forthwith took steps to prosecute the 

 war on Cota, and not to desist therefrom until he had made 

 himself master of that kingdom. And mustering his armies , he 

 sent his son Raju, whom he was training and inciting to acts 

 of bravery, that he might afterwards kill him [Mayadunne] 

 and his legitimate brothers and make himself king (as we 

 shall relate in the Eleventh 2 Decade, Madune paying for his 

 tyranny at the hands of his own son), to prosecute the war and 

 lay siege to Cota : which he did, sallying forth from Ceitavaca 

 with a large army ; and invading that king's territories, he 

 marched on causing great havoc and pillaging 3 . 



There was at this time in the city of Cota with that king 

 Afonso Pereira de Lacerda with a few troops, and with those 

 that he had he garrisoned the passes to the city, and fortified 

 them as best he could, and on the rivers he distributed ten or 

 twelve vessels, the captains of which were Fernao de Crasto., 

 Domingos Rapozo, Joao Rodriguez Correa, Antonio de Espin- 

 dola, Diogo Juzarte 4 , Christovao das Neves, Gaspar Lopez, 

 Vicente Bello, Antonio Fernandez, Gongalo de Chaves, Antonio 

 d'Araujo, Antonio Jorge, and Domingos Diaz, and as captain- 

 major of the whole Fernao Perez Dandrade. These vessels 



1 The account in the Rdjdvaliya (86) of Vidiye's flight and death is 

 very different from Couto's. The version in Val. (Ceylon 81) is curious, 

 and agrees with neither of the above. It runs : — " From there [' Conda 

 Palla Nuwara'] he went on board ship in the bay of Portaloon or 

 Putaleon, left for Jaffanapatnam, and betook himself to a haven or 

 bay which is since called Anaxaddie or Anacse Heriatotta, that is, ' the 

 passage of the king's crossing.' .... Vigea Rajoe with his son Jaja Palla 

 Astana and their retinue went to the village of Tammaraccoelam ; but 

 there, after a very sudden but short fight, he was robbed of everything 

 by the Malabaars." 2 Sic, for Tenth (see infra, p. 271). 



3 The Rdjdvaliya does not record this. 



4 This man is mentioned again in VII. ix, vi, (p. 205). 



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