Mediaeval Sinhalese Art c9.13

c9.13

“Hail! The order delivered on Saturday, the 7th day of the waning moon, in the month of Vap (September—October), in the year of Śaka 1566 (1644 A.D.). Whereas the goldsmith Hadu Nayidā of Maṅgalagama, having presented a (newly) gilt koku-sword of gold, hath performed faithful services to the Palace; six amuṇams sowing extent of Mahagoḍa in Kiṅdigoḍa Kōrale in the Disāvaniya of Four Kōrales, including houses and gardens, trees and plants, high lands and jungles appertaining thereto, have been granted (to him) to be held as pravēṇi land, so long as his children, grandchildren and their progeny shall survive. The (original) order upon which this sannasa was granted, that order is thus proclaimed the (final) decree” (H. C. P. Bell, Report on the Kēgalla District, 1892, pp. 98, 99). A later sannasa of the same family reads as follows: