TOE ROMANIZE]) TEXT OF THE FIRST FIVE 

 CHAPTERS OF THE B A' L AT A T A'R A. 



A Pali Grammar, with Translation 



and Explanatory Kotes. 

 i&y Lionel F. Lee, Ceylon Civil Service. 



The Burmese priests attribute the authorship of the Balava,- 

 £ara to a priest named Dhammakitti ; it does not, however, 

 appear that they have any good reasons for so doing. The 

 -editor of the recently published edition of the Balavatara while 

 noticing this assertion, remarks upon the common occurrence of 

 the name Dhammakitti, and the want of evidence in sup. 

 port of the Burmese theory. It is, however, probable that the 

 book was written about seven hundred yeais ago ; and, that the 

 author was acquainted with Sanskrit is apparent., from the 

 examples of the various rules.. 



I propose, if health and leisure be afforded me, to publish early 

 next year the Romanized as well as the Nagari text, with a trans,. 

 Ration and explanatory notes. 



It was originally my intention to publish simply the transla^ 

 tion, but a well-known Oriental scholar was good enough to 

 suggest to me that to European scholars the Romanized text 

 would be valuable, while the Pandit Dewarakkhita suggested 

 the addition of the Nagari text, to render the work of use to 

 Pali students in the East. I have thankfully adopted both these 

 suggestions, as they confer upon the publication an intrinsic 

 value which I fear my translation will not possess. 



In the separation of the Sutras, I hav3 followed the example 

 of Professor Ballantyne, in his translation of the Laghu 

 Kaumudi, 



