15 ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY, (CEYLON BRANCH.) 



I have met with this interesting word only in this inscrip- 

 tion. If poll was a common epithet of a thero, perhaps th3 

 expression pallbasa originally meant the " language of the 

 thero's" and Pali bhdshd may be only a mistaken re trans- 

 lation into Pali. This of course is a mere hypothesis, but I 

 cannot rest satisfied with the usual explanation of the word 

 pall* 



9) Makanamika " reverend" — maha and naman. 



10) Jeta, Skt. jyeshta, Palijettho. 



11) Apayaka, genitive " of us." The terminations of the 

 singular came soon to be employed also in the plural. 



12) Kiniylhi " he bought/' Aorist from V. kri (see above 

 III 10). This form answers, as it were, to an original * kri- 

 riitam akarshit. 



13) Ugu most probably means "taxes" here, according 

 to the whole context, though I do not know how to derive 

 the word. I formerly tried to identify it with Pali dgu = 

 Skt. agas and translated "having renounced sin" ; but this 

 would be very curious here and still more«so later on where 

 the word occurs again. 



14 J AwamidL This form, as it stands in the inscription 

 is either incorrect or a secondary abbreviation. We would 

 expect either awamidlhi u he removed" or awamidiya " hav- 

 ing removed." The verb must be Skt. V. muc (now muda- 

 nawa) with awa, though the whole word both on account of 

 the assimilation and for the chauge of c to d, certainly has 

 a very modern appearance. 



15) Abatarihi might be taken for an aorist, but I think, 

 it is a Locative = abhyantare. Nawa sahasaka klrl abatarihi^ 



* I am however aware that the use of the word Pali Mahav. p. 

 207: " I'itakattaya palim ca tassa atthakatham ca tarn mukhapathena 

 anesum pubbe bhikkhu mahamati" speaks against the explanation above 

 attempted. 



