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CEYLON BRANCH— ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY. 



G>©>'?d5 choro, a thief: lie who takes the value of five 

 masaka, (a pada or rupee) or more with a dishonest intention. 



^SN-arcego haney yun : punishing with blows inflicted with 

 the hand;, the foot, a whip, a cane, a club, &c. 



S^s-cD^go bandheyyun : binding with cords, fetters, 

 chains ; imprisoning in a house or city ; placing in solitary 

 confinement. 



^^os^csgo babbhajeyyun : transporting, banishing from 

 village, town, city, province or country. 



6©)GT>cn8 &c. chorosi, &c. Terms of reprimand. 



*so<#e?^«ao<?>5Bo<£ parajiko hoti (he is overcome). As a dried 

 leaf, separated from the branch and fallen to the ground 

 cannot be re-united to it and revive, so the priest who has 

 stolen to the value of a pada is separated from the priest- 

 hood and can never be reinstated. 



After this definition of the words of the law, a classifica- 

 tion of the crimes connected with it is appended, with a 

 report of adjudged cases. The punishment to which the 

 criminals are liable are g<s«s£) dukkata, ^@@Sc3 and t'liul- 

 lach-chaya, including reprimand and penance, and w^el 5 as* 

 parajika, or expulsion. There are 29 specifications which 

 may be divided into — 1, Locality of property. 2, Nature of 

 property ; and 3, Confederacies for robbery. 



1. Locality : 14 specifications, viz. — 1, Property buried in 

 the earth : 2, on the surface of the ground : 3, in the atmo- 

 sphere : 4, suspended above the ground : 5, in the water : 6, 

 in ships or boats : 7, in carts or other vehicles: 8, carried on 

 the person : 9, in gardens : 10, in temples, &c. : 11, in arable 

 land : 12, gardens : 13, towns, villages, &c, : 14, waste lands, 

 or lands more than a stone's throw from a house of any kind. 



2. Nature of property: 1, Liquids: 2, toothpicks, &c. 

 (belonging to the toilet) : 3, trees : 4, goods in deposit : 5, 

 smuggling : 6, men : 7, reptiles : 8. bipeds (as men, birds, 

 &c.) 9, quadrupeds: 10, multipedes, 



