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9. Kotald Clough gives only the form kotale, the plural 

 of which would be kotala ; the vessel seems to be like a small 

 round teapot. 



10. DolLKicnan the Sanskrit form is dohi, though 

 doli is mentioned in Sabda kalpa druma, and the Anglo- 

 Indian word "dooley" agrees with this; Clough gives dolawa 

 as the more usual form. Kuharna is the royal palankeen 

 with crooked bambu, the use of which was so zealously guard- 

 ed. Pybus feelingly complains (at page 72 of his 4< Mission to 

 the King of Kandy" in 1762) of being forced to use a 

 " dooley."— See also p. 89. 



11. Telesan means probably the leather called patkada 

 on which the priests prostrate themselves. Mr. de Soyza/ 

 Chief Translator to Government, has favoured me with the 

 derivation of this word — from talanawa,to beat, and san, skin. 



12. Md-ula, the word ula is obsolete, and not given in 

 the Dictionaries ; What is its derivation 1 



13. Pata-hand. Where were these clothes made ; they 

 cannot have been of native manufacture 1 



14. Madulu. I am not sure what this means. It is well 

 known that priests used signet rings, but m abulia isf riot 

 the right word for them. Madhilla, according to Clough, 

 means a circle, a ring, an arc, circumference in general. 

 Probably the word is a mistake for maudu, a bason. Can 

 any passage be quoted in which madulla is intentionally 

 used for maudu ? 



15. Swarga-moJcsha sounds more Hindu than Buddhist. 

 Nirvana has no deep, reality for the Sinhalese mind. See 

 the concluding paragraph in my article on Sinhalese Burials," 

 in the Ceylon Friend for Sept. 1870. 



Qalle, August 9th, 1870, 



