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This sufficed to establish as much as Mr. Pohath had 

 asserted. But Mr. F. H. M. Corbet, who kindly interested 

 himself in the discussion, put me in communication with 

 Mr. D. M. de Zilva Wickremasinghe, who had long before 

 this, not only convinced himself that the place was to be 

 sought near Dambadeniya, but had succeeded, as I think, in 

 identifying it still more exactly. The following are the 

 proofs which he has been good enough to communicate to me. 



The Sirivaddhanapura which we are discussing was con- 

 fessedly the birthplace of Parakrama. It is probable, there- 

 fore, that it was his father's home, and perhaps his father's 

 birthplace, especially as his father, Yijaya Bahu III., lived for 

 the greater part of his life in obscurity. 



Now it is stated in more than one book (Daladd Pujd- 

 valiya, ds ; Vanni Rdjavaliya, 90) that Vijaya Bahu lived 

 at Palabatgala, in the Seven Korales. This name has not 

 been identified. 



But the same Dambadeni-asna mentions Nanbambaraya, 

 and says that Parakrama lived there, and that he constructed 

 there a procession-path 2 gaws, or 8 miles, long. The Vanni 

 Rdjavaliya also mentions this procession-path. Nanbam- 

 baraya is still known, and is about the stated distance from 

 Dambadeniya. 



But Mr. Wickremasinghe has got nearer than this. He 

 discovered some three years ago at Dambadeniya part of a 

 poem called Kalundd-patund, and in this he finds it recorded 

 that when Parakrama the Second was called to the kingdom 

 he was superintending the cultivation of his fields at Nan- 

 bambaraya, where he had his palace. This then was in all 

 probability Parakrama's native place, the place which he 

 delighted to honour. 



It would be no wonder if he gave to this place, when it 

 became the abode of royalty, the title — it is more an epithet 

 than a proper name — of Sirivaddhanapura, " the auspicious 

 and prosperous city "; for this title was given in turn to many 

 places, to Yahapaw, to Kurunegala, and in course of time to 

 Senkhandasela, or Kandy, itself. 



