from the form of the letters it must be either the sixth, who 

 came to the throne, according to Tumour in 1464, but ac- 

 cording to Budugunalankara (quoted in Alwis's Sidat San- 

 garawa, p. 92 and 200) in 1469 : or the seventh who came to the 

 throne in 1534, and was shot by accident by a Portuguese 

 sportsman. 



2. Chahraivartti, " He, the wheels of whose chariot roll 

 unhindered over the known world" means in Sinhalese simply 

 overlord, in contra- distinction to the semi-independent rulers 

 of provinces to whom the title rajjuruwo could be applied. 



3. Kalu Pardkrama is not mentioned in any of the 

 books. 



4. Siwu pasayak, viz : clothing, food, medicine, and 

 residence, see note 1 on the Dewanagala Inscription, in the 

 Friend, for May 1870, p. 59. 



5. Wa&and must be for wacZina. Can any other 

 instance of this be quoted, wacZana being used below in a dif- 

 ferent sense? The whole expression means of course " to all 

 priests on their journeys wherever they come from." Mr. J. 

 Alwis says "According to usage the finite verb takes i and its 

 other forms a." ... 



Mr. de Soyza, the Chief Translator, says that wacZana is 

 ^he classical form of waeftna, and is always used in books. 



6. Ranata the effort of self-denial in not taking the field, 

 for nothing, is doubtless of the essence of the merit which the 

 minister so diplomatically transfers below, to his master, 

 hoping — who can doubt it — to retain it also for himself. 

 Such a touch of life makes one wish to know the further 

 history of Kalu Parakrama Bahu, or, to give the name an 

 English dress, of the "black strong i'-th'arm." 



7. Wahal Tamil or Sinhalese? 



8/ Wata pandan the exact article meant is not certain/ 



