Āyasmanta untranslated

Āyasmanta. A general of King Sāhasamalla. Āyasmanta deposed the king and installed Kalyāṇavatī, chief queen of Kittinissaṅka, on the throne of Ceylon. It was he who really administered the government, the queen’s power being only nominal. The Cūḷa Vaṁsa calls him a man of almost unsurpassable courage, a descendant of the Khandhāvara family. He slew the Adhikārī Deva and had a vihāra erected at Valliggāma. He also built a pariveṇa called after him Sarājakulavaḍḍhana (this evidently being one of his honorific titles) and gave land and other possessions for its maintenance. He had a text-book of law compiled for the use of administrators. He was slain by the Mahādipāda Anīkaṅga. Cv.lxxx.33-44. For further details see Geiger Cv.Trs.ii.130, n.2.