NOTES ON ANCIENT SIMHALESE INSCRIPTIONS. 



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IX. — Extract from Inscription of the same as King 

 Siri Sang boy Abahay (Mahindo III,) at Ambasthala, 



MlHINTALA (BEGINNING OF THE IItH CENTURY.) 



Siribar kaeta kula kot Okawas raj parapuren bat kaeta 

 ttsab Abahay Salamewan maharaj/hat eme kulen samajaey 

 dew Gon bisew raejna kusae ipaedae aepa mahaya siri 

 windae piliwelae sey raj wae turna sirin Lak diw pahaya- 

 min sitae Siri sang boy Abahay maharaj/hu tuma sat 

 laengu soloswana hawuruduyehi wap sand pun mas/hi dasa 

 pak dawas Seygiri weher/hi isa Abahay giri weher/hi isa 

 wasana maha bik sang himiyan mahasenwa karay tuma 

 bae wat himiyan Seygiri weher/hi pere tubu sirit nija 

 Abahay giri weher/hi sirit nija ruswa genae me weherat me 

 sirit tubu wawati nisiyan ha sasaendae me weherae wasana 

 maha bik sang himiyanat isa kaemiyanat isa dasnat isa 

 katae yutu isa labanu diyae yutu se isa wiwarunen ekse kot 

 me sirit tabana ladi. 



I) Usab = vrshabha. 2) Maharaj\hat. In the preced- 

 ing inscriptions we have rad for rajan. I have already 

 remarked in my report that King Mahindo was fond of old 

 forms. 



3) Eme, seems e (etat) H- ma corroborative particle. 



4 ) Samajaey, barbaric transformation of satnjata. 



5) Dew = devi. 6 Bisew raejna = biso raedna VIII. 4. 



7) Kusae Locative = kus/hi (see VIII. 5.) 



8) Ipaedae " having been born/' Gerund of upadinawa, 

 (utpad.) 



9) Mahaya possibly = mahatta "greatness." 

 10 j Windae Gerund of windinawa, tatsama. 



II) Piliwelae Loc. or. Gen. of piliwela = Pali patipati 

 (see Childers' Notes II. 15.) 



12) Sey, This seems a mistaken form for se (see IIL 



