The Colas c18.s2.89

c18.s2.89

¹²¹ Coedès, pp. 14-5. The argument has been advanced (*ARB.* 1919 paragraph 47) that Pappāḷam and Kusumi, the two ports mentioned in the *Mahāvaṁsa* account of the Ceylonese expedition against Ramaññadēśa must both be identified together; and that as Kusumi is clearly Bassien, the former must be either Dagan or Rangoon, the neighbouring port. This argument clearly underrates the express statement in the *Mahāvaṁsa* that the fleet was scattered by a storm and that different