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victory the army returned home rejoicing. The following 
stanzas from the Gird Sandesa refer to these events in 
glowing strains : — 
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The army that this^noble Lord despatched, crowded in vessels , 
when they had captured the intervening foreign countries, seized 
the seaport of Rayanvala. 
He despatched in one great armament (Ht. at one and the same 
time) his mighty army on broad great ships, for battle chiefly 
against the country of Chola in India and Ramapatuna (Adi- 
rampatanam), the seaport. 
He subdued the might of the Tamil host, over lusting for 
battle : on the plains of India he raised on high the sound of 
victory, and on fair Lanka conferred the benefits of that victory. ^ 
Another poet, the priest Sri Rahula, thus alludes to these 
conquests : — 
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He mastered the text of the Tripitaka in the words (tongue) it 
had been preached by our Master. He stormed the mountain 
strongholds, built aloft, and burst asunder the gates of Kannada 
1 GirdSandescK w. 125, 126, 127. 
2 Perakumbdsirita, v. 75 
