South India and her Muhammadan Invaders c8.s3.2

c8.s3.2

According to the Mahāvaṃśa Parākramabāhu the Great ascended the throne in A.D. 1164 (Wijesimha’s list). This list makes a correction by subtracting eleven years on the authority of the Polonnorua Inscription which gives his date of accession as A.B. 1743 with the equivalent Christian date August 23, A.D. 1200. Subtracting from this the total of forty-seven years for the reigns from Parākrama to Lilāvatī, the immediate predecessors of Sāhasamalla, Parākramabāhu’s accession would fall in A.D. 1153. This date for the accession of Parākrama is in accordance with the dates ascribed to that event both in the Rajaratnākari (Upham. ii. 86), and the Nikāyasangraha (Epi. Zey. i, p. 123). So Parākrama’s accession took place in A.D. 1153.