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People's Journal Sri Lanka Volume 01, Issue 01

his reputation as a great scholar. Vijayabāhu IV is introduced in the SUV as
Bōsat Vijayabāhu.

According to the MV, the successor of King Vijayabāhu IV was King
Parākramabāhu III. However, the SUV states it was Mahā Buvanekabāhu
(i.e., King Buvanekabāhu I). The MV records that King Parākramabāhu III
was succeeded by Vijayabāhu V, while the SUV claims that his successor was
another king named Parākramabāhu. In the SUV, King Vijayabāhu V is
referred to as Vanni Vijayabāhu. Thus, the royal succession of the
Dam ̆ badeniya Kingdom in the SUV differs from the MV.

King Parākramabāhu VII of the Kingdom of Kōttē is also referred to as
Paṇdita Parākramabāhu in the SUV, similar to the presentation of King
Parākramabāhu II, suggesting that he too was considered a learned ruler. The
SUV does not mention King Dharmapāla, the last ruler of the Kingdom of
Kōttē and son of King Buvanekabāhu VII. Hence, according to the SUV, the
last ruler of the Kōttē Kingdom was King Buvanekabāhu VII.

In Sri Lankan history, King Māyādunnē, father of King Rājasiṃha I and
founder of the Kingdom of Sītāvaka, is regarded as a regional ruler since
King Dharmapāla was still alive at the time of his death. Nonetheless, the
author of the SUV includes Māyādunnē in the list of Sri Lankan monarchs.
The SUV also includes King Vīravikrama, a regional ruler of the Kingdom of
Seṅkadagala, but mistakenly identifies him as King Sēnāsammata
Vikramabāhu—the founder of that kingdom. King Vīravikrama was, in fact,
one of his successors. Despite this error, the royal succession of the Kingdom
of Seṅkadagala (Kandy) is similar in both the MV and SUV.

The PV ends its list of Sri Lankan monarchs with King Vijayabāhu IV, also
known as Bōsat Vijayabāhu. The RV concludes with King
Vimaladharmasūriya II. The fifth part of the MV ends with King Kīrti Śrī
Rājasiṃha. The MV is still being compiled by a committee and continues to
serve as a chronicle of Sri Lankan history up to the last ruler.

However, the SUV is the only historical text that presents the complete
genealogy of Sri Lankan monarchs from the first king to the last in a single