No. 26.— 1883.] SINHALESE INSCRIPTIONS. 



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be an abbreviation of niyana = jftdna, from which also naena 

 and nuwana are derived. 



karand (Amb. A 21, B4) :— always used in connection 

 with nawam — navakarma " repair." The original meaning 

 of the word is " box" or " basket ;" but here it means most 

 probably "the inner room of the temple where the ordination 

 of the priests was held/' and in the Ambasthala inscription 

 has adopted the signification of " treasury" or " revenue." 



utumhi : — loc. of utu = ritu. 



mah an am : = makanakarma, later mahanuwam (Gp. 

 A 23) " ordination of a priest;" mahana = gramana, fern. 

 meheni (Mahak. A.) 



uwanisi : — most probably an old aorist from upanigri 

 " to establish." Comp. nisi from the same root, Pali nissita 

 (Amb. A 7, 24, 41.) 



wawastamd : — corrupted tatsama for vyavasthd. 



kaer ae : — infinitive used as gerund. Comp. the identical 

 passage vyavastkdkota (Dambulla 10.) 



radahar a : — " royal taxes." 



bill :— " offerings" ( Nam. 270) = Skt. ball 



bun : — bhagna? but the meaning is not clear. Comp. 

 su nbun on the slab at Kaelani. 



waeriyan :— comp. Mahak. C ; and Golds chniidt's re- 

 marks on the passage. 



samdaruwan (Kong. C 9 ; W. P. D 5; Wewelk. 46; 

 Minn. A 48): — always used in the same context rada hoi 

 samdaruwan. At Mahak. C we find instead of this rad kol 

 kaemiyan, where kaemiya ===. karmika. I have no doubt that 

 samadaruwa is the same as kaemiya, and that we have to 

 translate "the officers of the royal family;" but I am not 

 sure about the etymology of the word = samadhdraka? 



bisamwati — bisam I take as plural of bisow "queen," 

 with m instead of n, the ordinary sign of the plural. For 

 the meaning of wat, comp. Journ. C. A. S. 1879, p. 28. 



10. Inginimitiya (113.) 

 sawanaga puridase: — puridase is the same as 

 puradasa (W. P A 4) "the bright half." As to sawanaga, 

 I am doubtful whether it means " the sixth" and is a 

 formation analogous to dewana, "second," tunwana, " third," 



