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what time I do not know, have all gone down one step ; 

 thus wesak masa is May-June, while the Hindu Vaicakha is 

 April-May, cesala masa is July- August, while Ashadha is 

 June- July, (the other names do not correspond in the two 

 Calendars.) Nawaya (February) therefore must have opened 

 the year originally, when the appellation seems quite appro- 

 priate. 



6) pura " the light fortnight of the lunar month" from 

 Skt. purva is an adjective, " former" purva was changed to 

 pera ( comp. puluve in Acoka's Magadhi, purava Sauras, 

 also Singhalese s^ra(ma) == sarva.) 



Wak, older pak (comp. paka above III. 

 Dawas, an uninfected Locative (comp. later on.) 

 Pura dasa wak dawas " on the 10th day in the light half" 

 I — this is the usual form in which dates are given. 



7) rad = rajan. 



8) Pandi rad Ddpula warm " in the monastery called 

 Dapulu king of Pandi." Wara is used for "monastery," 

 particularly in connexion with meheni (cramani) — meheni- 

 wara = Pali samani upassayo " nunnery " In Prakrt the 

 same word is commonly employed for " house" (see Weber, 

 Hala.) It is possibly derived from Vvr (see however Bol- 

 lensen, VikrainorvacJ, who derives it from dvara.) Warce 

 is locative = warhi. 



9) Kdp = kalpa. 



10) ha " and" = ca, me kdp par ha in this kalpa and 

 in subsequent ones " unin fleeted locatives denoting time ; 

 comp. dawas above No, 6. 



11) kureli, farther on written kureli, feminine of kurulu 

 "bird" (comp. I. 1.) 



12) Senim is a verbal noun, contracted from senikama 

 (see note on Palisatarikama, III.)? which in modern Si in- 

 hale se would become senima or senuma. It must be from 

 verb* senanawa, but this is not known to me, as little as 



