The Quarterly Journal of the Mythic Society April 1938

The '" cleanness of the Yakkha " in these passages is clearly the same thing as the " cleanness of the man " and " cleanness of the (true) Brahman " in Sn. [...] " Ile " must be the " Person " and it is plain that the Brahman is the animating princple or in other words the Camanvat Yaksa in the great Tree of Life of which the roots are surely " moist " since its stand " in the midst of the Sea. [...] Both the book and the inscription declare that the chief invaded the Kalinga country at the command of the king the former stating that the king was at Karachi while the chief successfully prosecued the war and the latter adding that the chief reduced to ashes the whole of the Kalifiga country defeated the Gafiga in battle and destroyed Devêndravarman and others with the help of KOs'ala. [...] Are"249 the Court poets lying knaves The author of the poem Kaliitgattuppara0 one of the poets of Kulatunga's reign says that the king was staying at Karachi when Karundkara Toryjaiman led the expedition of Kalinga and the Court poet who wrote the pragastis of the inscription of the forty-second year expressly states that the king left his throne crossed VaginiarRIalam in the North set fire t [...] The author of the Parowi who was a no mean poet belonging to the reign of KulOttunga I by not attributing to the king the conquest of Kalingam effected by Kulatufiga's chief and the poet who composed the praasti of the Draksarama inscription of the same king by assigning the Kalifiga conquest to the chief himself prove that it was not their way to attribute the credit of the achievements of th