Giritaṭa untranslated

Giritaṭa (Ghitaṭāka). A tank built by Aggabodhi II. (Cv.xlii.67).

Near it was the village of the same name, where Parakkamabāhu I. once encamped with his army (Cv.lxx.312).

There the monks interviewed him on behalf of Gajabāhu and persuaded him to restore to the latter his kingdom (Cv.lxx.329f).

Later, the village was occupied by Māṇābharaṇa and his army (Cv.lxxii.149).

The tank was among those repaired by Parakkamabāhu I., and from there he carried the canal Kāverī, thus joining Giritaṭa to the Kaddūravaḍḍhamāna tank (Cv.lxxix.33, 55; see also Cv.Trs.i.312, n.3; 334 n.1).