The Basket-mender, having been looking at this, examined the place, and having gone near the King who was ruling at that time, told him of this circumstance. And the King, having thought that it is a good victorious ground, went there, and having built a city makes it his capital (rāja-dhāniya). For that city he made the name Sen̥kaḍagala [Nuwara—that is, Kandy].
[1] The Sinhalese title is, “The Jackal and the Basket-mender,”—at least this is what I take to be the meaning of Kulupottā, a word I do not know, deriving pottā from the Tamil pottu, to mend; compare Kuḷuyara, a basket-maker. [↑]
[2] A large monkey of two species (Semnopithecus). [↑]
[3] Deriving Seṇ from sema. Kandy appears to have been founded at the beginning of the fourteenth century (Ancient Ceylon, p. 354, note). [↑]
No. 77
The Gamarāla’s Daughter
In a certain country there were a Gamarāla and a daughter of the Gamarāla’s, it is said. Well then, for the Gamarāla they brought a Gama-mahagē.[1] The Gama-mahagē’s daughter and that Gamarāla’s daughter stayed in one place. The Gamarāla and the Gama-mahagē cook and eat separately; the Gamarāla’s daughter and the Gama-mahagē’s daughter cook and eat separately.