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In the Wanni Rdjavaliya we read as follows 



Tavada dalada pujava karammeyi sita Nanbambara sita Damba- 

 deniyata atara gavuvak digin palalin visi riyanak ten bhere talayak se 

 tana kaluveli piya suduvellen tavara vaduven pas riyanakata pili- 

 toronak ha * ° * meki puja peraharin Nanbambara sita mal raju un 

 Beligal nuvarata vaduven pas riyanaka ten kanu mul udura selgal 

 samatala kota maga depita pan maliga Cf * * lava tun masak mulullehi 

 nitipata dalada pujavak karava mese vidhana kaleya. 



** Moreover, having determined ' I shall make the tooth-relic offering ' 

 he made the space between Nanbambara and Dambadeniya in length 

 one gav and in breadth twenty cubits, like unto the face of a drum,, 

 and removing the black sand spread white sand, and on the space of 

 five cubits erected a cloth arch * * * and having cleared a space of 

 five cubits from Nanbambara to Beligal Nuwara, where (his) royal 

 brother resided, of stumps and roots, and levelled down the elevated 

 places and stones, and having erected lamp stands on either side of the 

 road * * * he caused a Tooth-relic offering continually to be made 

 during the space of three months, and ordered thus." 



Thus it is clear (i) that Sirivaddhanapura, where the king 

 is said to have been born, was the same as Nanbambara, 

 (ii) that the distance was only a gava, or about three miles 

 from Dambadeniya to Nanbambara, (iii) that the offerings 

 were made only during the space of three months, and the 

 relics were then removed to Dambadeniya and thence taken 

 to Polonnaruwa. 



It is said in the Dalada Pujdwaliya that this festival was 

 called " Sriivardhana-puja." What might be inferred from 

 this is that the name of his queen was given to the festival, 

 and Nanbambara was called Sirivaddhanapura after the 

 great festival. 



Kandy became the capital long after this. 



6. Mr. K. J. POHATH, Mudaliyar, followed with a note 

 embodying his views : — 



The question raised by me in 1889 was that the Siri- 

 vaddhanapura mentioned in the chapter LXXXV. of the 

 Mahdwansa was a buried city in the neighbourhood of 

 Dambadeniya, and not Kandy, as Sir Emerson Tennent has 

 erroneously stated in his " History of Ceylon." 



The question regarding the identity of the buried city 

 Sirivaddhanapura, in my opinion, still remains a matter of 

 doubt. Some think it is Randenigama Arame, others say 

 it is Ginigatpitiya. Mr. D. M. de Zilva Wickremasinghe, 

 Mr. Ranasinha, and others think it is Nambambaraya. 

 All these three places are situated in the neighbourhood 

 of Dambadeniya, in the North-Western Province ; and one 



* Orientalist, vol. III., 1887-9, p. 218 ; Ceylon Independent, May 15 and 

 July 12, 1889. 



