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have been inspected to verify the reading? I have personally 

 little confidence in Pandit Batuwantudawe's scholarship,* 

 but I have a very high confidence in the great learning and 

 critical power of Sri Sumangala. Until the contrary is quite 

 proved, I am only ready to believe that the learned editors 

 consulted in chief two different MSS., one for their Pali text, 

 and one for the translation ; that one contained addha, the 

 other attha, and that Mr. Pohath met with addha in one or 

 more copies.f 



Nanbambaraya is also called Nanbambara,J and I have seen 

 MSS. which might be read Tambambara.J But this legend of 

 the king being called to the throne, when ploughing there, 

 by no means applies to Parakrama II. § A ballad in my own 

 libraryl has legends on this subject, which state that the king 

 so called to the throne was living as a fugitive in distress at 

 Kalundawa (city near Dambulla ?), where he had married a 

 goyi woman, from whom Bhuwaneka Bahu Tero was 

 descended. This would indicate Vijaya Bahu IF of Dam- 

 badeniya, whose son, Bhuwaneka Bahu, founded a temple 

 at Kurunegala. The Tero may, however, be Bhuwaneka Bahu 

 I., who, according to one tradition, was a priest. In my 

 ballad || this Nanbambara would by the context seem to be a 

 place close to Kalundawa ; though I lay no stress on this, as 

 ballads are very disjointed in such allusions. 



Again, the Dambadeni-asna is a very uncertain work, and 

 old copies have some variant readings. One of the best I 

 know states as follows :■ — 



Buddha warshayen ekwa dahas ata siya su wissakwa awurudu vap 

 mangul karana dinayehi Nambambara Kalikala Sangita Sahitya 

 Sarvagna Pandita Parakrama Bahu nam maha rajayaeyi kiy^ otuna 

 paelanda rajjaya karanna samayehi, &c. 



* The late Don Andris de Silva, better known as " Batuwantudawe," 

 won among his contemporaries a name for sound Sanskrit and Pali 

 scholarship. — B., Hon. Sec. 



f See reference under note * p. 215, ante. — B., Hon, See. 



t Obvious copyists' errors. — B., Hon. See. 



§ Kalikala Sahitiya Sarvajna Pandita Parakrama Bahu, i. e., Parakrama 

 Bahu II. (1240-1275 A.D.), according- to the Mahdwansa editors, or Parak- 

 rama Bahu III. (1266-1301 a.d.) following- Turnour. See, too, "Report 

 on the K£galla District " (Sessional Paper XIX., 1892, p. 77). — B., Hon. Sec. 



j| In the absence of any published Catalogue of his valuable library, the 

 writer should certainly have specified by name the exact authorities he 

 refers to for the benefit of those who may desire to consult them.-— B., 

 Hon. Sec. 



Presumably the king meant is Vijaya Bahu III., father of Parakrama 

 Bahu II., and grandfather of Bhuvaneka Bahu I. Vijaya Bahu III.'s 

 second son, Bhuvaneka Bahu, built apirivena at Beligala and a vihara at 

 Kurunegala (Mah&wansa, LXXXI., 59-63).— B., Hon. Sec. 



