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JOURNAL, R.A.S. (CEYLON). 



[Vol. XXI. 



SEVEN KORALES. 



Tantirigama. — Now extinct. Nindagama. 



SUtuwa, 1664 Saka, (1742 a.d.), to the Udasgiriye Navaratna 

 Abharana Achari Nayidela from Balagalle Vikramasinha 

 Mudiyanse Ralahami, Diyawadana Nilame. 



The holder paid a massa (about Sd.) yearly to the Dalada 

 Maligawa, as the village was given to the Tooth Relic by the 

 Kurunegala kings. 



MATALE, 



Gurulawela (see Migaspitiya). — Bhuvaneka Bahu Deva- 

 narayana Sittara Mulachariya worked at Gangarama. 



Hulangomuwa. — The legend is that Hulangomuwe Raja- 

 paksha Bhagottara Sittara Mohottala held eighteen offices, 

 including those of Halu-mandape Lekam and Disawa of 

 Anaolondewa, Munnessaram, and Puttalam ; and that his 

 sannasa was inscribed on the same rock as those of the eighteen 

 walawwas of Hulangomuwa. He is said to have gained the 

 royal favour by pointing out a suitable site for a city. The 

 story refers to Hulangomuwe Hittara Nayide, to whom King 

 Kirtti Sri Raja Sinha gave an elephant in 1674 Saka, 

 1752 a.d. One tush is in existence, inscribed : — 



This is the tush of the elephant granted to the Hittara Nayide of 

 Hulangomuwa by the Maha Wasala Kirtti Sri Raja Sinha, born of 

 the pure solar race, endowed with renown, perfect like a jasmine 

 flower, excellent, the seat of valour, possessed of fame and pros- 

 perity, in the year of Saka Raja 1674, named Angira. 



The elephant was in all probability the reward for the 

 Nayide's work in AlutgamaVihare in the Asgiri Udasiya Pattuwa 

 of Matale. At the command of Pinnapaye Disawa of Matale 

 he constructed an image of Buddha for the Vihare. This was 

 shown to the King and he obtained a present. The festival of 

 setting in the eyes took place in 1672 Saka, (1750 a.d.)* 



* See Lawrie's Gazetteer, I,, p. 22. 



