272 Terms of address in use 



themselves in Sanscrit, or in a dialect of Sanscrit origin. * 

 For, whilst it is quite clear from the writings of the Greeks, 

 that they were indebted to othersf at a comparatively modern 

 date, (after the Christian era) for the information recorded 

 by them, it is a fact that ancient rock inscriptions, recorded 

 in India by the great Monarch Asoka (b. c. 259.) contains 

 the name Tamba-panni, without the Sanscrit r, and in the 

 integrity which it occurs in' the Mahawansa ;— and this too, 

 be it remarked, in a sentence which gives two Sanscrit names, 

 Si Satiyaputtra " and "Katalaputra " — the Pali of which would 

 be, Satiyaputta and Kataliputta. I extract the following 

 passage from the Girnar Iiiscription.% 



" Every where within the conquered Provinces Raja Piya- 

 dasi, the beloved of the Gods, as well as in the parts occupied 

 by the faithful, such as Chola, Pida, Satiyaputra, and Katali- 

 putra, even as far as Ta m bapanni — and moreover, within the 

 domains of Antiochus the Greek." &c. &c. 



The Singhalese word T ammana, clearly bears greater 

 affinity to the Pali Tambapanna, than to the Sanscrit Tam- 

 brapani ; and this relation may be further illustrated by the 

 greater resemblance between those two languages, than be- 

 tween the Sanscrit and Singhalese. I propose to exhibit this 

 by presenting the reader with a number of words ; and with 

 that object I submit the following observations : — 



An opinic seems to prevail that the Sanscrit is entitled 

 to greater claims to originality than the Pali; and peculiarities 



* " I am inclined to suggest that the name of Tambapani, Tambapanni, Tambra- 

 panni of the Pali historians, which has been converted into Taprobane by those . 

 of the Western world, may have had its origin when Vijeya and his followers 

 made known their first conquest in Lanka to the race from which he was descended,, 

 and from whom he had been expelled " — Forbes, vol. 1, pp. 10. 11. 



| There is a river called Tambrapani in the southern Peninsula of India, and 

 it is not improbable that the Natives of India pronounced the Pali word (Tam- 

 bapanni) according to the peculiarity of their own language, and in accordance 

 with the name with which they had been already familiar, viz., Tambrapani. 



% Bengal Asiatic S. Journal, vol. vii., p. 159. 



