36 ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY, (CEYLON BRANCH.) 



VIII. — Extract from Inscription of the aepa Mihinda 

 at Mayilagastota (end of the 10th century.) 



x ) P — Okawas parapuren bat rad purumu- 



wanat ag me[he]su[n] wu Lak diw poloyon parapuren 

 himi siti (?) Gon biso raedna kus/lii upan Abha Salarnewan 

 maharad/hu urehi da kaeta k|~ujla kot wiyat daliam niyae 

 gat (?) aepa Mihindahu wasin 



1) Purumuwanat, Dative of the plural, see I. 1> 



2) Ag Mehesun, plural honorific, agra + mahishi (Pali 

 mahesi.) 



3) Siti) Past Participle of sitinawa "to stand, to be,'* 

 tfauraseni cittha, Mag. cista or cicta, Skt. stha, tishta. 



4) Biso raedna "anointed Queen," abhisheka + rajni, 

 later biso or blsawa alone is used in this sense. The oldest 

 form for raedna I have met with is rajini ( second century 

 A.D.} 



5) Kits j hi, Locative. Kusa = kukshi. 6) Upan = ut* 

 panna. 



7) Urehi da = urasi jata, corresponding to aurasa* 



8) Wiyat = vyakta. 9) Daham for dharma. 



19) Niyae gat "he who has comprehended'' (?.) niyae 

 Locative. Niyae " wisdom, judgment, understanding, intel- 

 lect (Clough) (== naya ?). Gat, Past Participle of gannaw& 

 (= grhita.) 



11) Aepa evidently contracted from adhipati, but trans- 

 lated mechanically into Pali by the barbaric form adipado 

 (Sinhalese ae = adi, pa = pada. 



12) Mihindahu wasin "by Mihinda" = Mahendrasya 

 vacena. The modern form is wisin, which most probably 

 is here also to be emendated. 



