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OLA GRANTS. 
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3. — Raja Si^ha XL also reigned at Kandy, a.d. 1634-1687. A 
similar samiasa on an ola was granted by him to Hada Naide of 
Maggalagama in the Kegalla District, on Saturday, the seventh day of 
the waning moon in the month of Wap (October-November), Saka 
1566, equivalent to 1644 a.d. (^Archoeological Report, Kegalla, pp. 98 
and 99). The concluding line of this sannasa exactly corresponds with 
that of the second grant now under notice. 
4. — A strip of Sannasa A is missing. The loss leaves us ignorant 
of the appurtenant high land given to the grantee along with the field 
^' Daranda kunibura." 
5. — In August, 1630, Don Constantino de Sa with a large army 
plundered and burnt Badulla ; but on his return the Kandyans sur- 
rounded and defeated him. The head of the General was presented 
to the king's! son. Raja Sinha, who happened to be then bathing in a 
brook (Tennent, vol. 2, pp. 40 and 41 ; Valenty?!, pp. 16, 142). 
The Rdjavaliya says : That the heads of the Portuguese were cut 
off and piled in a heap." Knox says that Constantino de Sa, rather 
than fall by the enemy, called his black boy to give him water to 
drink, and snatching the knife from his side stabbed himself (^Relation, 
dc, p. 117). 
6. — Again in a.d. 1638, on the occasion of their sudden attack on 
Kandy, the entire army of the Portuguese was destroyed, and the 
skulls built in a pyramid by the Kandyans (Ten7ient, vol. 2, p. 42). 
7. — Kahatapitiya ; a suburb of Grampola, about half a mile from 
town. 
8. — Sultan Kuttiya. This man originally came, it appears, from 
the Malayalam country and settled at Galle, practising medicine. 
King Senerat summoned him to the Court of Kandy. He showed 
remarkable skill in his profession, and was soon taken into royal 
favour. The king bestowed on him the lands at Arankada (Kahata- 
pitiya), near Gampola, where he lived and died. The members of 
this family were known as Gdlle Vedardlald^ " the doctors of Galle." 
The last male survivor of the family died in 1874. He himself 
practised medicine successfully. His son-in-law, Ibrahim Lebbe 
Udaiyar of Udunuwara, foil owed the same profession. He held an act 
of appointment as Veda Arachchi from Government, in addition to 
being the Peace Officer and Arachchi of the village. The members 
of the family are scattered at Inigala in Harispattu ; Almekada. 
Yelayboda, and Bdwelikada in Udunuwara ; Getaberiya, Wadiyatenna 
in Four Korales, &c. They hold a higher social position than that 
of ordinary Moors. Sir A. 0. Lawrie says : A family of doctors 
(Moormen), having been admitted to the Bet-ge or the Royal Medical 
Department, are considered equal to the Vellalas. They came 
originally from Udunuwara." (^Gazetteer, vol. I., p. 395.) 
9. — Getaberiya, a village in Tunpalata Pattuwa of Paranakdruwa in 
the District of Kegalla. For the sannasa granted by King Kirti Sri 
Raja Sigha, dated Saka 1682 (1760 a.d.), and an interesting account of 
the Gopala Moors, see Archceological Report, Kegalla, pp. 99-101. 
10. — The site where the mosque at Kahatapitiya now stands was, in 
days past, nothing more than a waste, with only a kitul and a banyan 
tree. An ascetic from Mecca sat here in an attitude of devotion His 
motionless posture struck the attention of a toddy-drawer, who came 
to tap the palm flower. To ascertain whether the statue-like man 
