Appointing priests to the Temple of Upulvan (Devalaya)

This is mentioned in ancient ola leaf manuscripts like Thudugala Visidagama Bandarawaliye and Aluthnuwara Devala Sannasa and the 17th century copper plate inscription Lewke Sannasa.

Accordingly, King Dappula has taken steps to bring “Vaishnava” (devotees of Lord Vishnu) Brahmins and Servants from the Rameshwaram Maha Kovil on the Rameshwaram Island at the Indian end of the Rama Sethu Sand bridge, a natural sand dune region that connects South India and Sri Lanka. It is also mentioned that the leader of the Brahmins who came was named Ramachandra.

In addition to the written evidence, the arrival of foreign priests for the service of Maha Devalaya built after the ascension of a Red Sandalwood log to the Magulwella beach in Devinuwara, is mentioned in a folk poem of Sri Lanka.

According to that poem thus, after the arrival of the god Upulvan in Devinuwara, several families have landed in Devinuwara (Brahmins mentioned in the Thudugala ola leaf manuscript.) and from one of those families the chieftain family of Lewke has also emerged.