NOTES ON ANCIENT SIMHALESE INSCRIPTIONS. 



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etc. Beanies I. 80, Pali Vetthadipo). We should expect 

 Welu (with cerebral 1 <§), as the name is written indeed in 

 later cave inscriptions ; but it is doubtful whether there was 

 a separate letter for the cerebral 1 ((g) in the most an- 

 cient Simhalese. 



2) Putana Gen. plur. = Skt. putraiiam. Cerebral n, 

 though, as a rule, retained in Simhalese, was given up in 

 the Genitive plur. (later used for the Accusative), and mostly 

 in the Verbal nouns in na (thus we find karana[waj at least 

 regularly in the tenth century, but see rakana later on III.) 



3) Agata anagata = agata anagata, I think " those who 

 have come (for the solemnity of the giving over of the cave) 

 and those who have not come" (Comp. Mr. T. W. Rhys 

 Davids' remarks in the Indian Antiquary, 1872, p. 140.) 



Inscription on a rock at Haharane. 



Siddham/ Mujita gamana keriyahi ameta Casayaha puta 

 Abayaha ati Walamani wawiya kati wawiya dakihi galana 

 kana atala wawiya keta awitakita eta eta gama saro atali 

 kotu me Agicalamana wawiya Mula sara ca Pacacaliwa sara 

 ca do karihi sahasa ca caka catalisa karine (? karihina?) ca 

 Sarima parumaka maharaji me Agimalamana wawiya 

 bojiya pati Sene put a Aba lay ah a ca mahalaka balataka 

 rakana kanakayaha manumaraka ca samanaya Hamara 



tara kata ka(?) riya dakapatiya kala amana da ... rakata 



saga salahi liyawaya bojiya pataya karakulawaya Cetagiri 

 wiharahi Abatalahi silacetahi turn aha akala kotu kari 

 witara Gapacetehi telo huta mala kotu ca jina palisatari- 

 kama karana karotu Coi)awaliya Giniya Megaha c[e] tihi 

 Jaganaka hamananataya parawatahi ... ca ... kakotu ca 

 bojiya petiya Karakala wawiya dini [hi ?] me cetihi wi[hara?J 

 bojiya patiya ri... karihi sahasi ca wisiti karihi do pata ca 

 ametaha ca Waha^bayaha putanana (or ta?) ya duti[ya] 



