No. 54.— 1903.] DRAMATIC POETRY. 
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The great and all-powerful god of gods (who) made all living beings, 
plants, meanings, and words, remove all my faults by extending to me 
your divine kindness, and make me the possessor of your speech, and 
protect me from day to day. 
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Butsarana damsarana sangasarana pratyaksha nermita wandana 
; Adhyanta ramyavti Anadamahaterindutat kelawaraka sanga- 
sarana atwena 
Satgunavu perada visu prakkrama katikavii gurunge saranina 
Yutvu mema yugapevati guru sevoma kavi veradi kamavi asanu 
yatatvemi betiyena. 
I worship in proper form the Buddha, Dharma (law), and Sa^gha 
(order), and the extremely noble great Thero Ananda, and seek the 
guidance of the SaiQgha (order), and the teachers of the age who exist 
by the guidance of the virtuous, powerful, and eloquent of old. 1 
prostrate before you with reverence and crave you to listen to my 
verse and overlook its shortcomings. 
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Tunga wansadipati rajangamaya di'rapura abyantara bramana- 
kara wejabemin 
Wangadesa rajakarana Waguniriiidu lat Mayavatikumari 
Siharajuta agravti bisovemin 
Aiggawira sura Sijghabakumaru Sinhawalli jatavi kesara piya 
vida mar a rajavemin 
Ga^gadara veni dasadesata kirti Sirihala upata wardanaya min 
patan. 
Princess Mayawati, daughter of King Wagu of the royal house of 
the great and noble descent, who lived in great splendour, shedding 
a lustre beyond his city, and reigning in the Wa^ga country, became 
the chief queen of the Sinha King ; and her children, the great divine- 
formed Siighaba and Sinhawalli, killed the Sinha King, and obtaining 
the kingdom became the origin of the great Siigihalese race, whose 
fame has spread in the ten directions like that of the god Gaijgadhara. 
