l60 AN ACCOUNT OF THE SCULPTURES 



The language of the man mentioned in this paflage, 

 who came from the neighbourhood of Cape Comorin, 

 could be no other than the Tamulic ; but the words 

 here alluded to may very poffibly have been deriva- 

 tives from the Shanfcrit, common to both that and the 

 Balic. 



In another part of the fame work, where the author 

 treats of the hiftory of Sommonacodom at large, on the 

 authority of the Balic books, he fays, 



" The father of Sommonacodom, according to the 

 " fame Balic book, was a King of Teve Lanca ; that 

 ;t is to fay, of the famous Ceylone."* 



Here it is obfervable, that, while the country of 

 Siam feems to be utterly unknown both to the natives 

 of Ceylone and Hmdoflan, Ceylone fhould neverthelefs 

 be fo well known to the Siamefe, and under the fame 

 appellation it bears in the Shanfcrit. An epithet is 

 alfo here prefixed to it, which feems to be the fame as 

 that ufed by the Hindoos in fpeaking of that ifland ; 

 for they alfo call it, in Shanfcrit, Dive Lanca, or the 

 Sacred Lanca. From feveral paflagesin the fame work, 

 it alfo appears, that the Shanfcrit word Mdha, which 

 fignifies great, is constantly ufed in the Balic language 

 in the fame fenfe. And the names of the days of the 

 week are moft of them the fame in Shanfcrit and in 

 Balic, as may be feen in the following comparifon of 

 them. 



Shanfcrit. Balic. 



Aditta-var, Van Athit. Sunday. 



Soma-var, 



* " Le pere de Sommonacodom etoit, selon ce mesme livre Bali, 

 uu Roi de Teve Lanca, c'est-a-dire un Roi de la celebre Ceylan." 



