The National Magazine New Series. June 1902

i l urge you to take this ground and rear a city ; the only boon I pray for is that ye call the city Kapilavastu-pura after my name." Here the trees were felled the ground was levelled and the royal city of Kapilavastu reared under the shadow of the Himalayas on the banks of the Rohani. [...] When the tidings of Buddha's death drew to the spot the different Rajput clans including the Sakyas for the remains of the sage civil strife seemed imminent which was avoided by the Brahmin Drona who undertook to divide the relics amcng the contending tribes. [...] As we have seen theiSakya Dighayu reared the city of Digamadulla in the district of Batticalea ; thence his son Dighamini while a youth had been drawn by the fame of the prin:ess Ummada-citta to the court of Upatissa where he became master of the palace and ultimately married the king's daughter and a generation after the power of his family rose to the highest pitch when his son Pandukabhaya [...] and a common origin The foresight and the political genius of the Sakya princes led the Sinhalese in the very dawn of their national life to build up a civilization the memorials - of which*still attest the high scientific skill they attained to in architecture and practical engineering while the spirit of the teaching of the Sakya sage so moulded the national character of the people that it [...] He afterwards proclaimed to the world his New Dispensation in October 1881; the doctrine being the unification of the views of the principal religions of the word.