NOTES ON ANCIENT SIMHALESE INSCRIPTIONS. 9 



striking is afforded by the use the Simhalese make of the affix 

 se (Skt. cas — note the true Magadhic e). We have ekse 

 (" into one, together," etym. = ekacas) ; then it appears 

 in adverbs, as suwase u happily" (as it were * sukhagas), 

 dukse (* duhkhacas) (Comp. in Pali : odhiso, yoniso, 

 hetuso), in wahanse (see later on) etc., but it was also 

 severed from the substantive and used in the sense of " like, 

 as" and again an Instrumental (Ablative) seyin was 

 formed.*) For the Ablative comp, Padanagalida in next 

 inscription. 



21) Karihi a he made" see No. 10. 



22) Sakasa, etc. t I subjoin here all the numbers found 

 in inscriptions of this period. 



A. Cardinals : 2 duna (read duni ? doubtful) 3 tawaka, 

 tini 4 Catarij catirij catara, 5 paca, 6 caka, 7 sata, 8 ata 9 

 9 nawa, 10 dasa, 12 dolusa, 18 atadasa } 20 misiti, 40 catalisa, 

 (sic! with 1 q) 46 caka catalisa, 50 panasa, 1000 sakasa, 

 sahasaka, sahasi. B. Ordinals ; 2 dutiya, 3 tat'tya. 



23 ) The word following the numbers is not very clear on 

 the rock ; there seems to be a blank after the first two 

 syllables, but there is some stroke which is probably the 

 sign of e, but might also be taken for i, if we are to suppose 

 a letter to be missing. Perhaps karina simply was meant 

 by the inscriber, and the small line in the blank was a letter 

 that had failed. Karina or karina would be formative of 

 the plural from kari (Pali karisa, next inscription kiri, 

 modern kiriya), a measure containing four amuna's of land. 



* The late Professor Childers in his Notes on the Simhalese language 

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

 "stratagem" (ibid. 9.) 



-j- By an inadvertence I have unfortunately given the figures wrongly 

 in the translation subjoined in my report ; it ought to be 1046 karj's 

 (equal to about 10,460 acres,) 



Note. — The asterisk before the word denotes a figurative word. — E. M. 



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