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10) Maharadjku, Genitive in hu form sya-ssa-sa-ha. 



11) Tumd Nom. sing, of tuman = ten an. Maharad/hu 

 tuma is honorific. Later literature mistook such forms and 

 derived tumd from uttama ; as the Genitive sing, is here 

 preceding, it is clear that it is not to be taken so. 



12) Sat laengu = Pali chattam langhetva " after having 

 raised the umbrella." In Simhalese the 1 of Ylarigh is 

 changed to n : naginawa " to mount, to ascend," naegenawa 

 (older naengenawa) " to rise" (for instance : naegena ira 

 " the rising sun, the east," opp. basna ira " the west from 

 Vbhramc + surya.) As I have found the old / only in 

 this phrase which corresponds to the one used in Pali 

 and once in the same inscription the verb with n in 

 another connexion, I believe laengu to be a corrupted 

 tatsama. 



13) Hawuruduyeki, Loc. of hawurudu "year" modern 

 Nom. sing, awurudda, pron. aurudda) ; hawurudu is derived 

 from Skt. samvatsara through *sawacara, *sawajara, *sawa- 

 dura, *sawudura, *sawuruda ( c not uncommonly migrates, 

 into d in Simhalese.) 



14) Rat " kingdom, country" = rashtra. 15) Paekae- 

 rae Gerund of a verb paharanawa, tatsama = prahr. The 

 second inscription erroneously yields paehere. 



16) Jaya, in the second inscription transformed to deye. 



17) Lad, Participle "who obtained" = labdha, Comp. 

 VI. B. 6 



18) Rupun, plural of rupu = Skt. rpu, probably tatsama 

 (the Simhalese pronounce r like ru.) 



19) Ban = dana. 20) Mai " flowers." Mala "flower" 

 from Skt. mala. 



21) Masulutae mahat ekdnna 1 cannot explain. 



22) Kala, Participle : "who made" == krta. 

 • 23) Daru, "son" = daraka. 



24) Ddsawan " 10th ? " Comp. VI. A. 3. 



