 Balangoda Ananda Maitreya Thera has selected this motto from the "Anguttara Nikaya, Tika Nipatha, Bala Waggo Lakkana Sutta".On 1 January 1926 Kularatne appointed Dr. Gunapala Mallasekara as principal of the Nalanda College and transferred L. H. Metthanada to Ananda College as vice principal.Nalanda was fortunate in having its second principal, Gunapala Piyasena Malalasekera.