292 jouknal, r.a.s. (ceylon), [Vol. II., Part II. 



Kawsilurnina was written by Kalikala Sahitya 

 Sarawajayna, or King Pandita Parakrama Bahu III., 

 who flourished a.d. 1266, and the Kdviyasekare was 

 composed by Totagamuwe in the 34th year of the 

 reign of Parakrama Bahu VI., who ascended the throne 

 a.d. 1410. 



Between these two dates, therefore, was the " Sidatsanga- 

 rava " composed. But we are still unable to state at what 

 precise period of time (during an interval which covers a 

 space of 178 years) it was published. 



Extending, however, our investigations a little farther, it 

 may not prove to be an idle theory, nor one inconsistent with 

 that which we have just propounded, to identify Patiraja, 

 to whom allusion is made at the conclusion of the " Sidat- 

 sangarava," with the Wirasinha Patiraja mentioned 

 in the introduction to the " Pansiyapanas Jatakaya." The 

 grammarian, in a sort of dedicatory address with which he 

 concludes, says : — 



" May Patiraja, like unto a banner on the summit of the 

 mansion-like village Radula, and who by the arm of his exten- 

 sive ramparts governs the whole of the southern (division of) 

 Layka, be long prosperous ! I have composed the 6 Sidatsan- 

 garava' at his kind request, and with a view to dissemiuate 

 (the knowledge of) the rudiments of cases, &c, in the native 

 (Sinhalese) language. The wise man, who shall have learnt its 

 rules both primary and secondary, and shall have made grammar 

 his study — having with facility removed the pretensions of the 

 learned, who are elated with pride — will constantly hoist up the 

 flag of victory in (this land of) Lanka, like the boundless 

 ocean with the renown of its waves widespread in all 

 directions," 



Patiraja was not a king, but a chieftain in the south of 

 Ceylon, " who by the arm of his extensive ramparts governed 

 Southern Lanka," and "at whose request this grammar was 

 composed." Nor is it consistent with the known history of 



