8 ROYAL ASTATIC SOCIETY, (CEYLON BRANCH.) 



Gajabahu, 2nd century A.D., Mihintala, karihi " he made/' 

 dlnahl "he gave," liklhi " he wrote," wijitekaki "he con- 

 quered/' bajikaht f) " he gave over, made occupied,", tubahi 

 " he established, put up" (sthapay.) 



11) Guiana "flowing down (of the water) should be 

 galana (with dental n) from V gal. 



12) Kana "embankment," the modern Singhalese kanda 

 " hill embankment," derived from Skt. skkanna " raised, 

 elevated" V skhand. The form kana is still found in an 

 inscription of the 10th century. 



13) At a la = ant are. The correct form is a tali (a little 

 later on), as this accounts best for the later changes of the 

 word : aetata and finally aetulu. 



14) Keta = kshetra, 15) awltakita = avitarkita. 



16) Eta eta (from Skt. etat), modern Sinhalese e e. 



17) Saro perhaps plural., I have not met elsewhere with 

 nouns terminating in o. The word is derived from Skt. 

 saras. In later inscriptions we find the tank divided into 

 two parts : wawisara — wlesara and wsewse kana — w^kanda, 

 literally " the lake of the tank" and " the bund of the tank." 



18) Kotu = Skt. krtva, comp. dramatic Mag. kadua 

 (Hemac. IV. 301.) 



19) Me, as still me, Skt. stem ima — 



20) Do. This is the suffix of the Ablative (Skt. tas, 

 Prakrt do), separated from the noun and used like a post- 

 position. Similarly we find later the two syllables lesa of 

 elesa (idrea, Prakrt erisa) and kelesa kidrca, Prakrt kerisa) 

 mistaken for a separate word used in connexion with other 

 words with the signification "like"f, even in the instru- 

 mental (ablative) form lesin. An analogy even more 



(•j*) The late Professor Childers in his I^otes on the Simhalese 

 language II., p. 8, derives this word " se" from chaya and lesa from Pali 

 lesa " stratagem" (ibid. 9). 



