No. 63. — 1910.] AGE OF SBI PARAKRAMA BAKU VI. 
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were no match for the seasoned soldiers of the royal army. 
Hundreds of the Kandyans were mown down, and many of the 
nearest blood relations of the rebel prince were taken captive 
and sent to the capital. Jotiya Si^u was himself driven out 
of the highlands, 1 and his territory entrusted to a prince of 
the Gampola royal line^ and to a council of ministers with the 
obligation of vassalage to the throne.^ The victor returned 
in triumph to Kotte and presented himself before the emperor, 
who sent him back to his provincial government loaded with 
ranks and honours. 
Some years later, the king proposed to consolidate his power 
by bringing the scattered jurisdiction of the Vanni chieftains 
under the central authority. Centuries ago, the intervening 
belt of country between the kingdom of Jaffna and the Sin- 
halese provinces of the Sat Korale and Uda-pas-rata had been 
overrun by warlike bands of Tamils from the opposite coast, 
under turbulent chieftains called Vanniyars. They settled in 
this wild territory, carved out kingdoms for themselves, and 
defied the authority of successive Sinhalese rulers. 
Powerful monarchs like the great Parakrama, Vijaya Bahu 
III., and Pandita Parakrama Bahu II., induced them more 
often by gifts than by force to acknowledge the Sinhalese 
S ^9 c6 gssd cSc6 e<5 «grf©(3 <5 
— e3i.<5-85®S)»S5's>, 58 ss>. 
What time Jotiya assembled his four-fold array, the body of 
darkness which went by the name of king Jotiya Situ was scared away 
by the Solar king Parakrama, like another king Batiya, and fled for 
refuge to a foreign clime. — Perahumhdsirita, v. 58. 
Throughout this stanza there is a play on the name of Jotiya, 
meaning "moon or star," which is difficult to be adequately rendered 
into English. King Bhatiya Tissa, circa 500 B.C., according to tradition, 
is credited with having repelled a formidable invasion of an Indian tribe 
called Kaka Mukkaru. 
^ The Gampola royal house sprang from one of the princes who 
escorted the Bo-tree and belonged to the Solar dynasty. 
^ According to Valentyn, Ku^a Kumdraya was himself granted the 
principality. 
