Tale of a premonition

It was the time of intrigue in the last days of the Kandyan Kingdom. King Sri Wickremasinghe Rajasinghe was on the throne. The British were in control of most parts of the Island and were planning an assault on Kandy. A childhood friend of the King was aged and was dying. He had a premonition of things to come and sent a message to King Rajasinghe through an intermediary. The message was very poetic in its composition and it went as follows in a translation into English -
'Far away I see a hornets nest gather. It is a 'Yak debara' ( a vicious breed of hornets). Tell the King not to throw stones at it'.

What happened subsequently is history.
History has a habit of repeating itself many times.
(Story from the book ' In the days of King Sri Wickrema Rajasinghe by Dolopihillle)