Note 2 — Concerning a Monk and a Yakā

On account of the time during which the Yakā had been delayed near the well, the monk being afraid of the Yakā, the monk went backwards and backwards for three gawwas (twelve miles). The Yakā having pushed against the monk for so much time, and having got a bill-hook also, on the road he drove him (the monk) away. Having gone there [afterwards] to kill the monk, he met with the monk. After that, the Yakā threw the bill-hook, so that having cut the monk with it he would die. After he had thrown it, the bill-hook was behind,2 and the monk was in front [of it]. On account of that, the name [of the place] there became Kaettāēpahuwa [a village twenty-one miles from Kurunāēgala, on the road to Anurādhapura].