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The debris from the gate, Falling onto the elephant's back, Nandīmitta pushed it away with his arms, And advanced. Seeing his deed, Kaṇḍula, with a pleased mind, Abandoned the enmity of the tusks, That was first made. From his own back, For entry, Kaṇḍula, Turned back and looked, At the warrior, that best of elephants. "I will not enter, By the path made by an elephant," Nandīmitta thought, And struck the wall with his arm. It was eighteen cubits high, And fell with a crash, it is said. He looked at the pure path, He too, unwilling for that path. Leaping over the wall, He fell inside the city. Breaking each and every door, Goṭṭha entered like a dog. Hatthī took a chariot wheel, Mittta a cart frame, Goṭṭha a coconut tree, Nimmala an excellent sword. Mahāsoṇo a palmyra tree, Theraputta a great mace. Going into the streets separately, They crushed the Damila there. Having conquered the city, In four months, the king, Then going to Girilaka, Struck the Damila in the mountain. Going to Mahela city, With three great moats, Surrounded on all sides, By Kadamba flower vines. With one difficult-to-enter gate, Dwelling there for four months, The king captured Mahela's king, By a battle of strategy. Then to Anurādha city, Coming, the great king, Established his camp, Around the Kāsapabbata mountain. In the month of Jeṭṭhamūla, a pond was made there. The village of Posonanagara, as it was called, played in its waters. 52. Hearing that King Duṭṭhagāmaṇi had come for battle, Elara gathered his ministers and the king spoke. 53. “That king is a warrior himself, and his warriors are mighty. Ministers, what should be done? What do these of ours think?” 54. Dīghajattu and others, the warriors of King Elara, “Tomorrow we shall fight,” thus they made their decision. 55. King Duṭṭhagāmaṇi too, having consulted with his mother, according to her advice, made thirty-two battlements. 56. He placed royal figures there, holding royal umbrellas. But in the innermost battlement, the king himself stood. 57. King Elara, fully armed, mounted his great elephant, Mahāpabbata, and went there with his equipped army. 58. While the battle was raging, the mighty Dīghajattu, taking sword and shield, fought terrifyingly. 59. Leaping eighteen cubits into the air, he cut down that royal figure with his sword and broke the first battlement. 60. Thus breaking the remaining battlements, the mighty warrior approached the battlement where King Gāmaṇi stood. 61. That warrior, Sūranimila, shouting his own name at the king who was advancing, the mighty one reviled him. 62. The other, thinking “I will kill him,” angrily leaped into the air. The other, as he descended, presented his shield. 63. “I will cut this with the shield,” thus thinking, he struck the shield with his sword, and the other released it. 64. As the shield was released, Dīghajattu fell there. Rising, Sūranimila struck the fallen one with a spear. 65. Phussadeva blew the conch, the Damiḷa army was broken. Elara too turned back, many Damiḷas were slain. 66. The water in the pond there became turbid with the blood of the slain. Therefore, it became known by the name Kulatthavāpī. 67. Having had the drum beaten there, King Duṭṭhagāmaṇi proclaimed, “No one shall slay Elara…” "Ah, let no other release me!" 68. Girded, he himself mounted, the girded elephant Kaṇḍula; Pursuing Elāra, he came to the southern gate. 69. At the city's southern gate, the two kings fought; Elāra threw a spear, Gāmaṇi dodged it. 70. He made his own elephant pierce that elephant with its tusks; Elāra threw a spear, he fell there with his elephant. 71. Then, having won the battle, with his chariots, forces, and vehicles; He made Laṅkā a single parasol, and entered the city. 72. In the city, having sounded the drum, he gathered the people from a yojana all around, and performed a puja for King Elāra. 73. At the spot where his body fell, he cremated him with a pavilion; He built a cetiya there, and granted a privilege. 74. Even today, the rulers of Laṅkā, when near that place, by that same privilege, do not sound their musical instruments. 75. Thus, thirty-two Damiḷa kings, Duṭṭhagāmaṇi, having conquered them, made Laṅkā a single kingdom. 76. When the conquered city was broken, the warrior Dīghajattuka, having informed Elāra of his nephew's warrior status. 77. To his nephew named Halluka, he sent a message to come; Halluka, having heard it, 78. On the seventh day after Elāra's cremation, with sixty thousand men, he landed here. 79. Having landed, even hearing of that king's fall; "I will fight!" out of shame, he came here to Mahātittha. 80. He established a camp in the village of Koḷambahālaka; The king, hearing of his arrival, set out for battle. 81. Girded for battle, mounted on the elephant Kaṇḍula; With lines of elephant-riders and charioteers following. 82. Ummādaphussa, that god, the chief archer on the island; Girded with ten and a half weapons, and the other warriors followed. 83. When the fierce battle ensued, the girded Bhalluka there; Came towards the king, but the elephant-king Kaṇḍula. 84. To slow down his charge, retreated slowly. The army too, with him, retreated slowly, slowly. 85. The king said: "In previous battles, twenty-eight times, this one did not retreat. What is this, Phussadeva?" he asked. 86. "Our victory is supreme, O king, the elephant is our victory ground; he retreats looking, he will stand in the place of victory." 87. Then the elephant, having retreated, in front of Phussadeva, stood firmly established at the boundary of the Great Monastery. 88. While the elephant-king stood there, the Damiḷa Bhalluka, there, coming before the king, challenged the monarch. 89. Covering his face with a sword, the king shouted at him; "I will strike the king in the face!" So he shot an arrow. 90. Striking the flat of the sword, the arrow fell to the ground; "He is shot in the face!" thinking, Bhalluka cheered loudly. 91. Sitting behind the king, the mighty Phussadeva, shot an arrow at his face, grazing the king's earring. 92. Making the king's feet as his aim, as he was falling, shooting another arrow, piercing his knee. 93. Making the king's head as his aim, he struck him down with a swift hand; when Bhalluka fell, a shout of victory arose. 94. Phussadeva, right there, to make known his own fault, cut his own bowstring, and a handful of his own blood. 95. He showed it to the king. Seeing that, the king asked him, "What is this?" "The king's punishment has been done to me," he said to the monarch. 96. "Anger is a fault," he said, referring to the grazing of the earring; "Mistaking no fault for a fault, why did you do this, brother?" 97. Having said this, the great king, grateful, also said here: "A great honor, fitting for your arrow, will be yours." 98. Having slain all the Damiḷas, the king, having gained victory, ascended the palace terrace, and went to the lion-throne there. 99. Among the dancers and ministers, that arrow of Phussadeva, he commanded to be placed, straight on the ground by its shaft. 100. With kahāpaṇas, that arrow, he caused to be covered over and over, and gave it away. at that moment for Phussadeva. 101. On the palace floor of the king, the king, adorned; Illuminated by fragrant lamps, filled with various perfumes. 102. Adorned by actors and people, and by celestial nymphs; On a couch spread with priceless coverings, soft and beautiful. 103. Lying down, seeing his great prosperity, remembering the slaughter of the akkhobhiṇī, he found no happiness. 104. The Arahants in Piyangudīpa, knowing his unspoken thought; Sent eight Arahants, to console that lord. 105. Having arrived at midnight, they descended at the king's gate; Their arrival was announced, and they ascended to the palace floor. 106. Having paid homage to the great king, and seated them on seats; Having performed various honors, he asked the reason for their coming. 107. "We were sent by the Saṅgha in Piyangudīpa, O lord of men, to console you," the king was told again. 108. "How, venerable sirs, can there be consolation for me, by whom the great army of an akkhobhiṇī was caused to be slain?" 109. "There is no obstruction to the path to heaven for you by that deed; Even if one and a half million people were slain here, O lord of men. 110. One was established in the refuges, another in the five precepts; The rest were of wrong view and immoral, considered like animals. 111. And you will illuminate the Buddha's teaching in many ways; Therefore, O lord of men, remove the stain from your mind. 112. Thus spoken, the great king received consolation from them; Having paid homage and dismissed them, he lay down and thought again. 113. "Never partake of food without the Saṅgha"; Thus his parents had made him swear when he was a young boy regarding food. 114. "Was there any food eaten without giving to the Saṅgha?" He saw at breakfast one pepper ball. 115. "It was consumed without mindfulness, without setting it aside for the Saṅgha; For that, I must perform a disciplinary act," he thought. 116. Having thought that one crore of people were slain here by him, and that this was for the sake of desires, he should consider the danger of that in his mind; The slayer of all. And in mind one should do this, good, good, Thus from suffering release, good destiny, or one may attain it soon. In the Mahāvaṃsa, made for the joy and emotion of good people, The Victory of Duṭṭhagāmaṇī, The Twenty-fifth Chapter. Chapter Twenty-six The Festival of Maricavaṭṭi Vihāra 1. Having made the Lankan kingdom a single canopy, the greatly famous one; He then arranged for the warriors as was fitting. 2. The warrior Theraputtābhaya did not desire what was being given; When asked "What for?", he said "There is a battle." 3. When asked "What battle is there when the kingdom is united?",