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net;* a ring;t a cloth to be worn below ;J a fire- 

 iock;j| 22 buttons for his drefs;§ a pin,** luch as 

 they uf'e, with a fmall knife at one end, either of gold 

 or filvcr. 



EXTRACT FROM THE MAHA RAJA WAL- 

 LIEH, A SINGHALAIS HISTORY. 



CHAPTER VI. 



To the right of the Bogaha treef t lies a country 

 called Kalkengoo Rattehgooratkh, where there reigned 

 a King named Kallingoo Raje. He had a daughter, 

 whom he gave in marriage to the Emperor of Wag- 

 gooratteh, Itiled Waggoo Raje. The Emprefs, hi-s 

 wife, being brought to bed of a daughter, he called 

 together the aftroiogers, to calculate her deftiny : and 

 it v/as decreed by them, that however careful the Em- 

 peror might be of her fafety, this daughter, when ar- 

 rived at maturity, would be taken away from him by 

 a Lion. 



The Emperor, alarmed at the intelligence, haftened 

 to fecure the Princcfs by every poffible means. He 

 placed about her perfon numberlefs fervants ; and, for 

 greater fafety, caufed her to be bred up in an apart- 

 ment furrounded by guards. 



* Toppich. This word, I Imagine, they borrowed from the Portuguefe. 



t Moodehirrooioeh. % Cindangehtoopotich, |[ Tooakoouieh, 



§ Bot tarns. ** Ooikatoopihuh. 



++ This is the tree the Siamefc call Praji Maha Pout : it is held 

 alike facred by them and the Siiighalais . The latter term it, by way of 

 excellence, Srec Maha Boden IVahangfe. It was aguinit this tree that 

 Bhooduka leaned, when he firlt took upon himfclf his divine chara£le?. 

 A branch of the original tice is faid to have been brought to Ceylon in a 

 miraculous manner, and planted at Armcoradkcpoorek ±\ ooccerch ; where 

 to this day a tree of that defcription is worfliippcd, and tliought to polFefs 

 extraordinary virtues. The.- Bogaha, or tree of Bhooddha, is that, I 

 think, called in the Hindooflan, the PeepuL f Ficus Rdinofa,) a i'pecies 

 of banian, with heart-like and pointed leaf. The Smghalais, when de- 

 fcribing the dilferent countries they pretend to a knowledge of, make this 

 tree the central point, and determine the pofuion of the place by its lela- 

 tive Ctuation. 



