NOTES ON ANCIENT SIMHALESE INSCRIPTIONS. 



17 



literally " within 9,000 kiriya's," i e., " as many as 9,000 

 kiriya's." 



16) Tara pali mahanami, comp. mahanamika No. 9, 

 There is no case termination, bnt it evidently was intended 

 for the genitive or dative, 



17) Padana galida*. This is a genuine ablative, comp. 

 III. 20. giriya — gariya — gali — gala I have found as the sub- 

 stitutes for Skt. girl in Simhalese inscriptions. The two 

 former however which appear only in names probably repre- 

 sent a tatsama. Gali, it seems, was the form which the 

 Simhalese brought over from India, and this may be older 

 than Skt. giri (comp. Zend gairi.) 



18) Warakata (?) pawatarana (or tarina) I do not under- 

 stand. 



19) Uyuta read uwayuia = upayukta (comp. uwayutu later 

 on.) 



20) Sapadinaka, Skt. sampradatta Pali sampadinna, 

 " given over," used as past tense. The suffix ka seems strange 

 in a form of the verb ; it is nevertheless found with partici- 

 ples more than once, for instance, the last words in an 

 inscription at Alutgalvihara (N.-C. P.) are : Tisa teraha kal- 

 ahi likitaka" (this is) written in the time of the thero Tissa" 

 —a very unsatisfactory way of dating inscriptions indeed ! 



21) Acanani-niyamini — . . . . mini karawani are ver- 

 bal nouns (like karana, etc.), but I am not sure w T h ether 

 they are to be construed with kotu (krtva) or in this form 

 have assumed the functions of a tense or mood independently. 

 Acanani, from a verb acana, I do not understand. Niy amino, 

 should be niyamani, for niyamana from Vyam + ni ; kara- 

 wani, as it were, karapanam. 



* At present this rock is called Patanangala, about thirty-eight 

 miles from Hambantota. There are also fragments of an ancient 

 inscription. 



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