Mediaeval Sinhalese Art c22.149

c22.149

in the Four Kōrales, and was then the residence of Molligoḍa Adigār, at whose *valavva* the goldsmith was doubtless working. The pendant has passed into the hands of the Pāṇabokka family, and now by marriage to the Halaṅgoḍas. I am indebted to Mr. T. B. Pāṇabokka for a copy of the inscription, in which, however, there must be some mistake about the date. Śaka 1761, however, would be A.D. 1839, well within the lifetime of the second Molligoḍa Adigār, who died in A.D. 1845.