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mddae b iy a: — ? 



karaware (B 5) : — read harawanu, and comp. above 

 karwanu. 



ha saw a: = Pali kasdya or kasdva " sin." 



kewul : = katwarta, Pali kevatta, Magadhi kevata, (Cun- 

 ningham, Corpus Inscriptionum, p. 42.) The cerebral I seems 

 to be the original. 



2. — Kasappa's Inscription at Mihintalis (115). 



we her in : — abl. sing. The terminations of the instru- 

 mental in in or gen are also used for the ablative in inscrip- 

 tions of the 10th or ] 1th centuries : comp. Journ. C. A. S. 

 1879, p. 10. In the oldest inscriptions the ablative is 

 formed by the affix da = Skt. tas e. g., padana galida 

 (Tissamaharama, 67, 8.) 



dunumand lan : — stands most probably for tunmandala, 

 Pali timandala, i. e. "the robe of the Buddhist priest which 

 covers three circles." Here as well as at Mahakalattaewa 

 (110), it simply means "priest." The form is the acc. pi. 



gann d. -—comp. Amb. A 48, B 42. This, as well as 

 wadnd, is a peculiar form of the infinitive, only used in a 

 certain context of words : the common form is genae. 

 Most probably the modern infinitives, like haranne, are 

 derived from these forms. 



mahawar : = mahdpdra. 



wadnd a verbo wadinawd ) " to enter." Comp. Amb. 

 B 55; Mahak. B ; Journ. C. A. S. 1879, p, 32. 



mang diwa pediwa: — The second part of these two 

 words is derived from sjdhdv; the first part of the first 

 one = margd "road," and of the second = pada "foot": 

 this word is generally found under the form piya e. g., piya- 

 giya = padagata, ( ^Mahak, C ; Amb. B 53.) Pe is most 

 probably contracted from piya, similarly as in welanawd 

 " to dry," older wiyalanawd. This explanation seems to me 

 more natural than to recur to the form peda in pedenpeda 

 (Kavy. III., 4), which looks like a forgery of the Pandits. 

 The word is to be found besides at Inginimitiya (113) B 24; 

 Kongollaewa (112) A 16. 



wadatalan : — "palmyra;" composed from wada "high," 

 and tal = tdla. 



