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and one usabha" or about seven miles. Mr. Wijesinha reads 

 " attha" " eight," where the best manuscripts as well as the 

 printed edition have " addha" " half." 



Secondly, where in the first sentence he describes the city 

 as " incomparable for its scenery " — a touch which fits 

 Kandy, and is inapplicable to the flat country of Damba- 

 deniya— the words " for its scenery " are not in the original, 

 and have doubtless flowed from Mr. Wijesinha's pen under 

 the influence of the idea that he was describing Kandy. 



When the inhabitants of Kandy first began to claim this 

 honour for their own I cannot tell ; but at any rate about 

 1833, those who supplied Sir Alexander Johnstone with the 

 books which were placed for editing in Mr. Upham's hands, 

 must have told Mr. Upham that this Sirivaddhana was 

 Kandy, In that author's English of the Rdjaratndkaraya, 

 after the words " the king built the city called Sreewardanam 

 Poora" the words "now called Candy" are boldly inserted 

 in the text, without a hint that they are not in the original 

 (Upham II., 104). Neither in the Rdjaratndkaraya (which 

 was probably completed in the sixteenth century and borrowed 

 largely from the Mahdwansa) nor in the Rdjavaliya 

 (which was written a century or more later, and also follows 

 the Mahdwansa closely in this part) is there anything to 

 point to the identification with Kandy. 



Tumour, a few years later, placed no confidence in 

 Upham's work, — indeed he has too severely disparaged it, — 

 and so Tumour escaped the mistake. He does not contradict 

 it, nor does he attempt any other identification, but he 

 simply says " Sirivaddhanapura in the Seven Korales." 



Sir Emerson Tennent (I., 414) was more easily misled. 

 Referring to Upham's Rdjaratndkaraya, but probably 

 supported also by the popular opinion in Ceylon, he 

 published to the world the identification of Kandy with 

 the birthplace of Parakrama the Second. Knighton, in 

 1845 (p. 158), and others had already repeated the received 

 opinion, but it was Tennent's popularity and authority, I 

 suppose, which most widely diffused it. 



