NOTES ON ANCIENT SIMHALESE INSCRIPTIONS. 11 



36) Kala "at the time when," from Skt. kala. 



37) Amana " measure," now amuna, Pali ammanam. 



38) /S^& = sangha. 



39) Salahi Loc. from sala == Skt. ojla "stone" (comp. 

 sila No. 44.) In the next inscription we have salihi (and so 

 always the locative terminating in — ihL) 



40.) Liyawaya " having caused to be written," from liya- 

 wanawa = likhapay. On the formation of the Gerund see 

 JSTo. 27. 



41) Cetagiri = Caityagiri (Mihintala.) The transforma- 

 tions of the word caitya in Simhalese are the following 

 (taken from inscriptions of different periods) : ceta, ceya, 

 sey, sse, sseya— add the present colloquial form saya. 



42.) Wiharahi Loc. Other forms of the word vikara are 

 win era, wahira, wihira, and the more modern wehera. 



43) Abatalahi " at Ambasthala." 



44) Sllacetahi Loc, gila and caitya. 



45) Tumaha Gen. of tnma (= atman.) 



46) Akala = akrta. (For the genitive with participles 

 see Childers' Notes on the Sinhalese language II., 6,) 



47) Witara = Skt. vistara. This word is frequently em- 

 ployed in Simhalese compounds as koccara (contracted from 

 *kovitara — c by influence of i — = kim vistara) "how 

 much," emtara, etc. 



48) CetehL The old form is cetahi fsee 44) : again we 

 find cetihi. Which was the proper form at that time, can- 

 not be ascertained ; probably all three were correct. 



This is a language of transition, in which we find the 

 phonetic changes floating, not yet settled. It will be ob- 

 served in the next inscription that ihi is the common termi- 

 nation of the locative. This may be taken as a proof 

 that the latter is of a more recent date, but not necessarily 

 so, as the writer may have been more pedantic, besides 

 allowance is to be made for the difference of dialect. The 



