ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY. 



GEYLON BRANCH. 



NOTES ILLUSTRATIVE OF BUDDHISM AS 

 THE DAILY RELIGION OF THE 

 BUDDHISTS OF CEYLON, 



AND 



SOME ACCOUNT OF THEIR CEREMONIES 

 BEFORE AND AFTER DEATH.* 



By J. F. Dickson, M.A.Oxon. 

 {Read 20tk December, 1883.) 



PIN KAMA. 



Danam silaS ca bhavana 

 Patti pattunumodana 

 Veyyavacca-apacayan ca 

 Desana sutti ditthi-ju. 



i. 



Charity 



6. 



Helping the helpless 



2. 



Piety 



7. 



Showing respect 



3. 



Meditation 



8. 



Preaching 



4. 



The giving of merit 

 Sharing in the merits 

 of another 



9. 



Listening 



5. 



10. 



- 



Rejection of heresy. 



In this stanza are enumerated the ten modes [dasa kusala 

 karma] in which punna kammam or pinkama [a meritorious 

 act] may be performed. They are sub-divided, in some cases, 

 with great minuteness with many cross divisions, which it 



* The system of transliteration employed in this Paper differs from 

 that of the Ceylon Government (usually followed in the C. A. S* 

 publications) as follows : — m is used for n ; c for ch. — Hon. Sec. 



21-86. a, 



