252 Terms of address in use 



claimed, i A Rahula is born !' A tie has been created! When 

 the king, having inquired what his son had said, was informed 

 of (tan wachanan) that word (i. e. Rahula, the chief word of 

 his son's exclamation), Suddhodana said 6 Let then Rahula 

 (prince) itself be the name of my grandson from henceforth. 1 ' 



The names which are used by the laic as terms of address 

 towards the elders of the Budhist church, are generally those 

 given to their native countries ; as for instance Miripenne, 

 Karangoda, Bentota, Ambegahapitia, &c, &c. The titles 

 which were anciently given by the Crown to a chief hierarch 

 of the Budhist church was Sang a Raja. (See an instance of 

 this in the extracts in my Sidath- Sangara w a, p. ccxxvii.) But, 

 when the Singhalese Government had ceased to exist, the 

 dignitaries of their church were designated Nai/aka and 

 Anu-ndyaka ("the chief" and the "next chief") with the 

 honorific affix of Teruvi! arise or Unanse. 



Treating of the word ££d<20D£>5®d>, says Mr. Stark : — 

 The word is not used however to any other than such priests (a thera). 

 It is not given to Kapuwa or god's priest ; nor to the Yakadura, or devil's 

 piiest ; nor to the Balikaraya, or planat priest." — p. 74. 



He is quite right. No respect whatever was originally 

 shewn to the priests of a worship which had not the sanction 

 of Budhism. Thus a " devil's priest" was called Yakha-ddsa 

 (Pali), or Yakdessa (Singhalese), "the devil's slave." But, 

 as corruptions crept into the religious worship of the Island, 

 from the invasions of Ceylon by the Malabars,* and Yakka 

 worship was gradually introduced by them, ' the slave of the 

 devil' became Yakadura, or f the teacher of demonology ': and 

 the simple Kapuwa] e god's priest,' was designated 'Kapurafo.' 



* See Mr. Silva's Essay in Eeibero's Ceylon, p. 274, et seq. 

 f This word is derived from Kepa <^oO ' ^° set apart,' ' dedicate ' — it being 

 usual, when a vow is made to the gods, that as an earnest of one's obligation, or 

 the assurance of the fulfilment of one's vows, to plant a pillar, as it were the 

 foundation stone of the building to be thereafter erected for the ceremony. Whence 

 this pillar is called hop, aud the priest who plants it is thence designated 



tt'O^O l Kapuwd.' 



