Outlines of Ceylon History
Outlines of Ceylon History
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Kassapa, finding that the inhabitants in the surrounding districts were hostile towards him, ordered his forces to i-etreat, remarking " It is difficult to give battle here. " Thereupon Prince Kirti pursued them cautiously until they reached Kataragama, where proud Kassapa, enraged at finding the enemy close behind him at his capital, ordered his forces immediately to march out and attack him. A great stubbornly contested battle ensued outside the city gates, in which Kassapa was slain, and the... valiant Prince Kirti, who had started his military careei' at the age of thirteen and was now seventeen years of age, was proclaimed king under the name of Vijaya Bahu. Rohana had been under the administra- tion of Kassapa for six months.
Vijaya Bahu, who was no less great an adminis- Vijaj/a trator than he was a general of consummate skill, ap- -S«^«^ ^•. _ pointed his nobles to offices suited to their capacity, and "j 'if caused his authority to be proclaimed throughout Rohana by beat of drum.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Kassapa, finding that the inhabitants in the surrounding districts were hostile towards him, ordered his forces to i-etreat, remarking " It is difficult to give battle here. " Thereupon Prince Kirti pursued them cautiously until they reached Kataragama, where proud Kassapa, enraged at finding the enemy close behind him at his capital, ordered his forces immediately to march out and attack him. A great stubbornly contested battle ensued outside the city gates, in which Kassapa was slain, and the... valiant Prince Kirti, who had started his military careei' at the age of thirteen and was now seventeen years of age, was proclaimed king under the name of Vijaya Bahu. Rohana had been under the administra- tion of Kassapa for six months.
Vijaya Bahu, who was no less great an adminis- Vijaj/a trator than he was a general of consummate skill, ap- -S«^«^ ^•. _ pointed his nobles to offices suited to their capacity, and "j 'if caused his authority to be proclaimed throughout Rohana by beat of drum.
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