40 ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY, (CEYLON BRANCH*) 



X. — ( Galpota I. Report p. 2.) 



— Udagal mundun pat hiruhu s£ saturandum 



durula bahujanaya — muwa — piyum dubudu kotae anat 

 raja sirin Cakra devendraya se somigunen pun sandahu se 

 dhiratayen Meruwa se gaemburabaewin sagaraya se kshan- 

 tigunen maha polowa se lowaessan pinin upan kaprukab se 

 waedae sitae. 



1) Udagal mundun pat hiruhu = Udayagirimurdhanam 

 praptastiryasya. 2) Se see above. 



3) Saturandum catru + andhakara. 



4) Duruld Gerund of durulanawa, denominative from 

 duru (dura) " far." 



5 J Muwa* piyum — mukha padma (piyum through 

 paduma) 



6) Pubudu = prabuddha. 7) Anat = ananta. 8 Somi 

 = saumya. 



9) Gaemburu baewln — gambhirabhavena. The modern 



* The modern form for muwa (mukha) is muna. There was an 

 obvious reason for altering the simple word muwa " mouth," us there is 

 another word muwd in Simhalese signifying a "deer," Skt. mrga. 

 Muna is possibly contracted from muwan, plural of muwa. In litera- 

 ture, it is true, we find the word muhuna which looks as if derived from 

 muha, the Prakrt form of Skt. mukha. But this is certainly a later 

 invention of the pandits who delight in the use of old words and from 

 the frequent occurrence of modern long vowels contracted from two 

 short ones which had an h between them (e. g lunu " onion" from 

 luhunu = lacuna) concluded that muna had undergone the same 

 process. 



The following may serve as an analogy for the change of muwa to 

 muna. Walaha "a bear" has been very well explained by Mr. 

 Childers (Notes II. 14) as wal " wield" (= vana) 4- asa (= Pali accho.) 

 Yet it seems strange that " a bear" should be called expressly " a wild 

 bear." Now the Simhalese formerly had an other word asa " horse" 

 <==a( , va ) ; thus to distinguish "a bear" from "ahorse" they were 

 compelled to call the former a wal-asa. 



