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pucayasa awanaka wasahi majimodini cada puna masi sata 

 paka diwasa [hi]. 



1) Mujita = Skt. majjita "inundated." 



2) Gamara = gramanain, Gen. plural or perhaps more 

 correctly already general Formative of the plural. 



3) Keriyahi Loc-si. representing an imaginary form 

 * karyasmin, i, e., karya in the pronominal Locative. I 

 have met with no Locative prior to the time of Dushta- 

 gramani when this case already terminated in hi ; in the 

 time of Devanam priya Tishya the termination probably was 

 still si, corresponding to the Genitive sa (later ha) and the 

 identical terminations in the Magadhi inscriptions. 



4) Ameta = aniatya. I have found ametiya^) in other 

 inscriptions of the same period. 



5) Casayaha Gen., probably an error for Wasabayaha or 

 Wahabayaha (see below). This inscription is interesting as 



(f ) For instance, in an inscription on the Ruwanwaeli Dagaba, 

 Anuradhapura : — ■ 



Ametiya Dolakamatayaha p[uta majhasena ma[h.araja\ ametiya Aha- 

 yaha, i. e., of Abhaya, son of the minister Dolakamataya (i. e. Drdha- 

 mata), minister to king MahSsena." This Abhaya, as I have already 

 pointed out in a former report (Sept. 1875), must be Meghavarna 

 Abhaya, mentioned Mahav. p. 235 H. This important inscription which 

 might throw some light on the religious quarrels under the reign of 

 Mahasena is unfortunately very imperfectly preserved. It appears from 

 the end that it was written under the reign of King Meghavarna 

 (Mekawana Aba [ma] harajaha), the son and successor of Mahasena, 

 according to the Mah&vamso (820-330 A.D.) To puzzle us however, 

 this King is not called son of Mahasena, but son of a Maharaja," whose 

 name cannot be deciphered with safety, but may be Siri Naka ; now in 

 an inscription close to the one in question and written in the same 

 characters we actually find: Sari Naka maharajaha puta [ma]haraja 

 Mekawana It seems we are driven to the conclusion that Maha- 

 sena was also called Cri Naga. 



