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JOURNAL R. A. S. (CEYLON), [Vol. II., PART II. 



Mr. Casie Chitty in the Transactions of the Royal Asiatic 

 Society. A few rough pillars and slabs scattered at random in 

 a thick jungle are the only remains now visible. 



Wijaya's companions and successors soon established them- 

 selves in different parts of the country, and in the fifth reign, 

 that of Pandukabhaya, the seat of Government was finally 

 removed about forty miles north-west to Anuraclhapura. A 

 king of Madampe (Tanne We 11a Bahu), and the queen Alliyara 

 Sani, who has been referred to in a previous section, are the 

 only other Royal personages having their residence within the 

 District, of whom, as far as I am aware, history contains any 

 record. 



In Upham's Collections (Vol. III., p. 324 etseq.) there is an 

 account of the removal of the branch of the R5 tree from 

 Jambudwipa to B6dhimandala at Anuraclhapura, &c. In this 

 tract particular mention is made of a Malabar nation having 

 been called to assist in a local war which occurred in the time 

 of Tissa who followed Dutthagamini. The foreigners landed 

 at Karativu, fourteen miles north of Puttalam, and appear to 

 have proceeded towards the interior nearly by the line of the 

 present Kurunegala road. What we are to understand by the 

 nine hundred cannons which the Malabars brought with them, 

 it is difficult to surmise; probably the confusion arises from 

 mistranslation. 



The inhabitants, as in other maritime Districts, are composed 

 of people of many nations. The Mnhammadans or Moormen are 

 said by Sir A. Johnston to have first settled in the Island in 

 the early part of the Eighth century ; they formed portion of 

 those Arabs of the house of Haslum who were driven from 

 Arabia by the tyranny of the Caliph Abdul Melek Ben 

 Merwen, and who, proceeding southwards, made various settle- 

 ments in the South of India and Malacca, In Ceylon they 

 carried on a very extensive trade in rice, indigo, chanks, cheya, 

 &c. j and by making advances to the natives for the purpose of 



