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Parakrama. But it was the last gleam before tlie darkness ; 
soon the Sinhalese had to brace themselves for a death 
o 
struggle for their national existence with an invader far 
more ruthless and formidable than the Tamil. 
Appendix A. 
From that time forward religious harmony prevailed among the 
priesthood up to the 15th year of Bhuvaneka Bahu Y. Up to the 
fourth year of Bhuvaneka Bahu there was f nlfilled 1929 years after 
the death of our Sage (1382 a. d.). Thereafter there was the 
own son of Alakeswara Prabhuraja, his'-' father's nephew Vira 
Alakeswara, the latter's younger brother Vira Bahu Epana^ his son 
Wijaya Epa, his younger brother Tunayesa, whose father's elder 
brother Yira Alakeswara, having been defeated by his younger brother 
Yira Bahu Epa, fled the country. Thereafter he returned and reigned 
twelve years. 
Afterwards, in consequence of the sins of a former birth, he fell 
into a device of the Chinese and went away ; thereupon Parakrama 
Bahu Epa, the grandson of Lanka Senevirat, who had been previously 
mentioned, ascended the throne in the month of Poson in the year of 
Buddha 1958 and 1722nd year from the establishment of the religion 
in the Island, after the demise of the said seven." — Saddharmaratna- 
kara, Colombo Museum MS., C. 12, p. ; MS. V., p. ^^8. 
" His " refers throughout to the name immediately preceding. 
