[2] His bravery at the time of his execution made him a legendary child hero in Sri Lanka.

Ehelapola’s wife, kumarihami, and daughters were forcibly drowned in Bogambara Lake by tying stones around their necks.

[5] While Bandara's brother was frightened to face death, he stepped forward and asked the executioner to behead him with a single strike.

[6] “One single instance of no distant date will be acknowledged to include everything which is barbarous and unprincipled in public rule, and to portray the last stage of individual depravity and wickedness, the obliteration of every trace of conscience, and the complete extinction of human feeling.

In the deplorable fate of the wife and children of Eheylapola Adikar these assertions are fully substantiated; in which was exhibited the savage scene of four infant children, the youngest torn from the mother’s breast, cruelly butchered, and their heads bruised in a mortar by the hands of their parent; succeeded by the execution of the woman herself and three females more, whose limbs being bound, and a heavy stone tied round the neck of each, they were thrown into a lake and drowned.”