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With the finest jewels and various ornaments, The lord of men honored the unequaled relic. 119. Then, at the time of the auspicious Jinadanta relic, the great king Parakkamabāhu, whose might, power, and prowess were great, having brought to his own residence, along with his courtiers, Vaṇdabhānu, the lord of men, who had come from the Tambaliṅga country with great daring, desiring to seize the kingdom of Lanka, who had destroyed the dispensation in the world, residing in Pulatthipura, who had an army of many thousands of Cola and Kerala soldiers, who was a match for many kings of various countries, an elephant in rut, a lion in prowess, difficult to overcome, who had deceived the whole world by means of gathering the world's dispensation, and who was endowed with a powerful army, and having made the whole island of Lanka under one umbrella, while performing twice as much gathering of the world's dispensation as his great-grandfather, once, desiring to give robes for the Kathina ceremony to the Sangha, having destroyed all the necessary things, such as cotton preparation and spinning, in one day, and having given eighty Kathina robes, each adorned with many precious and valuable goods and complete with the requisites for a monk, filled the ten directions with the approval of the world. 120. Thus, while performing many other meritorious deeds that cause wonder in the world, that great king Parakkamabāhu, having built a great stupa at the place of cremation of his great-grandfather at the Hatthavanagalla Vihara, and having heard that a superior palace, long built, had been used by thousands of arahants, sent a noble minister named Patirājadeva, born in the Dhanuketakivatthu lineage, endowed with faith and other virtues, and with the expenditure of many thousands of wealth, the land..." Having built a pleasant palace adorned with ornaments and filled with flowers in the city, he provided continuous support with the four requisites to numerous monks residing there. 121. Right there, placing corbels at the lower level of the circular mansion and creating a roof-like covering all around, he transformed the two-storied mansion into a three-storied one. Desiring to construct a Jina shrine unprecedented in the island of Lanka, north of the circular mansion, he first excavated to the depth of a man's height, up to the stone foundation, removed the soil, and filled it with river sand. Starting from the foundation adorned with majestic elephants, up to the pinnacle, dividing the walls and coverings into eight sections, he made each section of the eight-part walls adorned with various colors and designs. Above them, he constructed a circular pavilion adorned with abundant spirits and attendants, embellished with various playful and amusing scenes, and at the front end, he built a high structure with bricks, plastered with fine mortar, and adorned with a makara arch, creating a delightful interior with various paintings of floral designs and creepers, and well-arranged stairways and doors, decorated with charming platforms and adorned with lifelike images of the living Jina. To the right of the image, he erected a great three-storied mansion adorned with a Sugata image made of solid stone. Thus ends the eleventh chapter, on the construction of the eight-sectioned mansion. 122. May those virtuous ones who, even in the future, maintain this monastery, through renovations of dilapidated structures, and through the giving of fields and other donations, have their names inscribed here.