NOTES ON ANCIENT SIMHALESE INSCRIPTIONS. 41 



form for gaemburu is jaemburu, a solitary instance of the 

 change of g to j in Sinhalese. 



10) Polowa = prthiwi, comp. poloyon VII., 7. 



11) Lo waessan, loka + vasin. On the doubling of con- 

 sonants in plural— See Childers' Notes, L 



12) Pinin = punyena. 



13) Kaprukak se "like a kalpa tree," kalpa + vrksha* 

 The common word for " tree" in Sinhalese is gaha (~ gac- 

 cha.) 



14) Waedae sitae "being pleased to be" (in a certain 

 condition), waedae gerund of wad ana wa " to increase" which 

 is joined to a verb when a king or other person of great im- 

 portance is the subject. Sitae see IX., 16. 



XL— From Hiccanka Malla's Inscription at 

 Rankot Dagaba {Report p. 13.) 



Ran Tisae Minihoru Gangatala Padi aetulu wu tun raja- 

 yehi no ek maha wae taenae acesha praninta abhaya dt 



1) Ran Time, etc. ■ wae taenae. Wae is contracted 



from waew used in composition for waewa " tank," (comp, 

 waekanda " the embankment of a tank.") The names for 

 the different tanks are thus to be joined : Ran waewa (not 

 identified) — Tisae wa (contracted from Tissawaewa, a tank at 



Anuradhapura, constructed by Devanain piya Tisso) 



Minihoruwaewa. We should expect Miniheru , but all four 

 pillars agree in thus writing the word and on the fifth copy 

 (on the stone seat at Kiriwehera) the reading is not clear — 

 Gafigatalawa, Pali Gangatatavapi, constructed, according to 

 the Mahavamso, chap. 42, by Agrabodhi II. (623-633), at 

 present usually called by its Tamil name Kandalei — Padi- 

 waewa, at present Padiwila in the North- Central Province. 



2) Aetulu, see III., 13 a.nd VI., A 22 



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