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[Since this paper has gone to press I have found in J. F. Judice 
Biker^s Colleccao de Tratados, &c., t. II., p. 38 et seq., full details of the 
treaty of peace made with the King of Kandy in 1633, from which it 
would seem that Senarat, though no longer reigning, was still living. 
The date of his death is, therefore, uncertain, but was probably 1633 
or 1634.] 
^ See Mahdwansa, chap. XC Y., vv. 2 1-25, and Knox, Hist, ReL^ 
p. 33, for details of the partition. None of the authorities states how 
long before Senarat's death this division took place (but see previous 
note, and c/. Raja Sigiha's letter of September 9, 1636, infra). 
^ According to Baldseus (u.s.) and the Mahdwansa (chap. XCYI., 
V. 4). The Rdjdvaliya says that " Kumarasinha had died before that 
date " {i,e.y of Senarat's death). See also Cey, Lit. Meg., II., p. 54. 
^ See Cey. Lit. Reg., IV., pp. 61-62, and footnotes, II., p. 415 ; Rdjd- 
valiya, p. 102. The Batavia Dagh- Registers for 1641-42 and 1643-44 
contain several references to this prince ; and the latter Dagh-Register 
gives (pp. 255-258) the translation of a curious letter written by Vijaya- 
pala from Colombo to the Dutch, asking for their friendship and help. 
This letter seems to confirm the statement of the Rdjdvaliya (u.s.) 
that Vijayapala resided for three years in Colombo before leaving for 
Goa, as against Ribeiro's assertion that he sailed thither in December, 
1641 (perhaps this last date is a mistake for 1644). See further 
regarding Vijayapala, infra, notes ^"^^ and 
^ See Raja Siriha's letter, infra. 
^According to Gunasekara's English translation of the Rdjdvaliya ^ 
Raja Si^ha " sent letters to the Jagadard in Holland with a view to 
bring the Dutch into this country and with their assistance to compel 
the immedia te surrender of Colombo." In the glossary at the beginning 
of this edition the word Jagadard is explained as follows : " Customs 
ofl&cer or collector. From the context it would seem to mean here ' the 
Government.' " The learned translator has here fallen into a most 
extraordinary blunder. I suppose he has taken Jagadard as the 
Sinhalese corruption of jerquer ; whereas in fact it is simply an 
attempt to represent the original name of Batavia, viz., Jacatra 
(which, of course, is not in Holland but in Java ; but the Rdjdvaliya 
compiler's notions of geography were vague). It will be seen from 
the letters below that Raja Si^ha almost always uses the name Jacatra 
— rarely Batavia. 
^ Whether the original of this letter is still in existence I cannot say. 
Baldaeus gives a translation of it in his work on Ceylon (chap. XVII. 
of Dutch ed.). The English translation (from the German version) in 
ChurchilV s Collection of Voyages gives the substance pretty accurately ; 
but as this is Raja Sinha's first letter to the Dutch, with whom he for 
so many years subsequently carried on a correspondence (not always 
of a very cordial nature), and as there are a number of mistakes in 
the spelling of names in Baldaeus's version, I have thought it well to 
