146 SPOLIA ZEYLANICA. 
Prof. Geiger supplies the following descriptive note upon the 
manuscript :— 
“Tt does not contain the original text of the Mahawansa, but an 
enlarged one. This secondary Mahawansa was first found by the 
late Prof. Hardy in a Cambodian manuscript kept in the National 
Library at Paris (vide J. R. A.S. 1902, p. 171). Iam inclined to believe 
that all the Mahawansa manuscripts written in Cambodian characters 
contain the same enlarged text. This is, no doubt, the case with 
the other Cambodian Mahawansa manuscript kept in the Museum’s 
Library. I conclude it from the information which I got about it 
from my friend the High Priest Subhuti, who has examined the 
manuscript. 
‘©2. The writing of lot 1 is tolerably clear and legible. Its text 
is better and much more correct than that of the Paris manuscript. 
*¢ 3. It consists of 13 sets of olas comprising 24 olas each. The 
second set contains 26 olas; the last two olas are signed & and ¢? 
(ira and ira). 
‘* The first two leaves of the third set bear the same signature. The 
eighth set comprises only 19 olas. But this set is misplaced. It 
should be put at the end of the whole manuscript as 14th set, for 
it contains the last chapters of the Mahawansa from XX XV. 21 to 
XXXVII. 50 and the author’s subscription. The author calls 
himself Puggallano (in the Paris manuscript Moggallano). The true 
8th set is entirely missing comprising the olas 9$ to 6 (na, tah), 
and, inthe Mahawansa a passage from chapter X XII. to the beginning 
of chapter XXV. It may be remarked that the set 8 (= recte 14) 
is not signed in the same manner as the leaves of the other sets.” 
Erlangen, December, 1905. 
5. Latin Derivatives in use in the Sinhalese Language.— 
The few Latin derivatives in use in the Sinhalese language are 
due to the introduction of the Roman-Dutch Law into the maritime 
provinces by the Dutch. Of course there are a number of Sin- 
halese words which can be traced to Latin through Portuguese, 
being directly adopted from the latter. The following words how- 
ever were taken into Sinhalese from their Latin equivalents in the 
Roman-Dutch jurisprudence :— : 
‘* Peracoduru,”’ proctor from the Latin ‘‘ procurator.’” 
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