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He is invoked in Salu-salima. See also Bodhi-sattva, Buddha, Haniyan Yaka, Line, Maha-sammata, Manikpala, Oddisa.
Märakkall. Adoptive mother of Pattini.
Maralu Yaka (Siddhi M.). The M.-y.-kavi describes this god as born of the queen of Malvara-nuvara, who bathed in the river Nerañjana. In the third month of pregnancy her paps grew black. The child burst through her left shoulder. He was put in a boat on a Thursday, and sailed to Ceylon, where he came to Kanda Kumâra. After fasting for 7 days he and his companions defeated the Marulans. He dwells in the Four Vannis, bears a golden sword in his right hand, terrifies people by throwing stones, and hunts the golden (stag ?)' with a golden bow. An appended yadinna relates that queen Mâyâ, born at Tarindu-vâsal ("Moon-portal"), came to Pulingu-rata, where she wedded the Pulingu Raja and gave birth to Maralu. He came to Ceylon with 6 companions-Raja Maralu, Gini M. Mas M., Vädi M., and two others. Milk-rice and 9 kinds of fried food are offered to them on 2 platforms and 3 arches, and incense is burned, on the north-east. The Dolaha-devi-kavi states that he visits the Marulan-kanda, broke the fork. of 1,000 Marulang. and attends with a golden bow. See also Riri Yaka.
Mars. See Kuja. : Maru Riri. A god invoked in connection with Riri Yaka, who aluse from his blood. Maru Yaka. A demon, who came to earth with Kalu Kumara, q. v. Masgan Bhairava. A demon represented in the Rakusu-bali; see Rakusu. Mas Kadavara. A demon, invoked in Kadavara-vidiya and Tota-kumara-áântiya. Mas Maralu. A companion of Maralu Yaka
Mat. For the rite of the mat in the Ata Magula, see Ata Magula. On the ritual of the Samayan-pädura, see Samayan
Matalan. The M.-kathava relates that owing to evil predictions the king of Visal-pura (Vigala) ordered his infant daughter Suram bâvati to be exposed by the wet-nurse in the wilderness. There Viskam, sent by Säkra, created for them a park and golden bower. When the girl was 7 years of age, king Vijitta, losing his way while hunting, found her there and made amorous addresses to her, which she rejected. He then angrily said: “I will make you mother of a bastard.” She retorted: "Then may my son tie you to the state pillar and flog you !” They then parted; but his evil desire somehow took effect, and she bore a son, known as Vanehi Raja-kumaru, the Prince of the Forest. He grew to boyhood, and fought with other boys, whose mothers thereupon reviled him as a bastard. Surambavati then revealed to him his origin, and he went to his father's city. There he came upon the king's washerman washing the king's linen, who asked him his name, to which he answered: "Måtalânê-gê Appu.” The washerman, seeing the boy was eating cakes, asked whence he had got them. He answered that they came from some cake-trees which he had just passed. The washer man went off to find the cake-trees, leaving the linen in charge of the boy, who then stole the royal clothes and hid them in a cave, and took lodgings with a woman who worked in the palace. He then went with a thief to steal the king's sword of state and "foot-box" (på-mula-pettiya), containing the chief treasures. The thief entered the palace by a grated window and handed out the sword and box to the prince ; then however he went into the kitchen and ate so much that he could not pass back through the grating, but stuck there. In order that he might not be identified, the prince cut off his head and took it away. The king, finding the body. ordered it to be burnt, and set & guard to see who should come and add the head to the
