The Journal of the Siam Society Vol. LXIV, Part 1-2, 1976 - Khamkoo

HEVJEW AHTICLE
with modern locations without a great deal of guessing. But the fact of
the cities in the three lists numbering the same seems very significant.
I will leave this problem to future students.
The second point to tie up concerns Dharmasoka, the five months
old baby who was put on the throne of Lanka in 1208. This is an
impossible story. I will anticipate the evidence of the next section by
stating that Dharmasokaraja, or Phya Sri Thammasokaraja as he was
called in the Thai chronicles, was the title of the first king of Nakorn Sri
Thammaraj (Tambralinga.) Sometimes be was also the Maharaja of Sri
Vijaya. The name first appeared in an inscription dated 1167, or some
four decades before this first mention in the Simhalese chronicles. The
story of the five months old baby, then, should be interpreted that the
Maharaja Sri Tbammasoka went on an inspection trip to Ceylon to see
the chaotic conditions for himself. He stayed five months to wait for
a change of winds and then returned. With this interpretation, the
pattern of the history of Sri Vijaya and Sri Lanka in the Polonnaruva
Period becomes clear.
During the reigns of Vijayabahu I and Parakramabahu I, there
was co-operation between Sri Vijaya and Sri Lanka. The trade route
was kept open, and there was prosperity on both sides. After Parakramababu,
Nissamkamalla was sent with orders to follow Parakramabahu's
policy of pacifying the land and to keep the trade route open. After
Nissamkamalla's death, Sahasamalla was sent, but after two years he
was deposed by Abo, who raised Queen Kalyanavati, the Kalinga widow
of Nissamkamalla, to the throne. She had a comparattvely long reign
of six years considering the troubled times. Then, probably when she
died, the Maharaja crossed the seas on an inspection trip, and on his
return he sent Anikanga, called a Mabadipada, who killed Abo and
ascended the throne. But he was soon deposed by the Pandya faction,
and the Maharaja then sent Lokissa (or Lokesvara), who was in turn
deposed after nine months. The Maharaja theri sent Magha with orders
to use force, bring the land under control and keep the trade route open.
Magha carried out his instructions so well that the Culawamsa (pp.
1~3-4) ~roaneo;
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