4 ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY, (CEYLON BRANCH.) 



Safigboy ma purumuka (Inscription VI. and often)— rad 

 purumimanat,) Dative of the Plural maiestatis, Mayila- 

 gastota inscription and elsewhere.) 



2. ) Pallkadasa, Gen. in sa == Samskrt sga, Pali-Prakrt 

 ssa. : >:/ [■«■':■ ' . 



3. ) bariya = Samskrt bharya. 



4. ) Tirakita = Trirakshita. 



5. ) Jita "daughter" === Samskrt duhitr, Pali dlnta, 

 Bangalij^, Oriya jhia (Beams' Compar. Gr. I. 192), Comp. 

 Pali gijjho, Sindhi gijha (Beams II., 21) for Samskrt grdhra. 



6. ) Citaya Gen. si. fern. = Skt. Ci tray ah, Pali cittaya 

 or citraya, Prakrt cittje, cittai. 



7. ) Lene "cave," Pali lenam (Comp. Childers Diet. II. 

 Add. p. 622). The word is in the magadkic Nominative. 



A common formula in these cave inscriptions is ; 



lene sagasa dine (i. e., Pali lenam sanghassa dinnam) " the 

 cave is given to the priesthood." 



8. ) <^aga<?a = saiighasya. Genitive for Dative, as in 

 Pali. (On the formation of the later Simhalese Dative 

 some remarks will be made later on.) 



II. — Inscription near Netttjkanda. 



Parumaka Welti]) putana lene agata anagata 

 catudiga gagaga. 



1) Welu. — This name is still very common, though not 

 among the Simhalese,! f ) but among the Tamils. The word 

 is a vernacular form of Vishnu (Comp. Bang. Or. Vishtam, 



-j-) I have written w in Simhalese words to guide the pronunciation, 

 as is decidedly more like English w than like v. 



■j-j-) Velusumano (both parts of the name are common in cave inscrip- 

 tions); is also the name of a warrior of king Kakavanna Tissa, who 

 performed the astonishing feat of riding in one day from Auuradha- 

 pura to Magama (Mahav., Tumour's Ed , p. 134.) 



