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five districts/" which constituted the Gampola Kingdom, con- 
sulted together and made a night attack on the Tamil camp. 
Taken unawares, large numbers of the enemy were speared to 
death, and the few survivors that succeeded in escaping, in 
their struggle to return home, perished on the mountains.! 
The force intended to take Kotte came by sea, disembarked 
in two divisions at the bay of Colombo and at Panadure, and 
encamped at Gorakana in Dematagoda. The enemy, accord- 
ing to a contemporary, mustered in great force, "clad in mail 
and fully armed," and took up positions at Colombo, Wattala, 
Negombo, Chilaw, &c., which they strongly entrenched with 
Wisapeleliy Nadasdla^ and Mardsi.X 
Behind the walls of Kotte, with a Sinhalese army and a 
force of Tamils, § probably mercenaries, Alakeswara awaited 
the arrival of the enemy. 
When intelligence reached him of the landing of the 
enemy, mounted on his elephant he dispersed a force of 
about five thousand Tamils that held Mattamagoda,"t and 
stormed their camp and utterly defeated them at Gorakana. 
Cutting off the retreat of the fugitives by destroying their 
vessels at Colombo, with a rapid movement he marched to 
Panadure, where he routed the remainder of Chakkra- 
warti's forces and shattered their ships off that port. After 
this signal victory Alakeswara returned in triumph to Rayi- 
gama. He was hailed as the deliverer of the country and 
received into the ranks of the five highest princely orders of 
the realm, i.e.y Dipddhirdja, Supreme Ruler of the Island; 
Mandalikardja, Provincial Ruler; Pradesardja^ District 
Ruler ; AntarahJiogikardja^ Ruler of a sub-district ; and 
Amisdsakardfa, Supreme Counsellor. Numerous bards 
chanted the praises of the hero. The following Pali paean, 
* Si^. Uda pas rata, i.e., Udunuwara, Yatinuwara, Harispattuwa, Hewa- 
heta, and Dumbara. Rdjdvaliya (Sigi. ed.)j p. X.; Ceylon Literary Register, 
vol. III., p. 335. 
f \alentyn, loc. cit, 
X Old military terms, meaning's of which I have not been able to ascertain. 
§ Nikaya Sangraha, p. 27. 
