NOTES ON ANCIENT SIMHALESE INSCRIPTIONS. 4$ 



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Windina narakadi duk daen ha matu matu wana nuwanaeti- 

 yan lobhadvesba mana dura kotae labha antaraya no kotae 

 miwanaettan (?) kala anumowanu maenaewi. 



A. 



1) d "having come" (= ayata), participle of enawa. 



2) Swdminge. The modern Genitive for animates with 

 the honorific plural, svamin. 



3) Senewiyan, plural honorific of senewi = senapati. 



4) Tunwanne, see VL, A 3 and 4. 



5) Anurddhapurehi patan bhumiye, Anuradhapure + 

 prasthana + bhumyam " on ground (beginning) from Anu- 

 radhapura," bhumiye is the modern Locative. 



6) Taman, older tuman (see VL, B 2.) 



7) Kaeraewu, Past Participle of karawanawa " to cause 

 to make." 



8) Ruwanpdyehi, Locative, ruwan (== ratna) + paya 

 (= prasada.) 



9) Waedae Aun, waedae (see X., 14.) hun = sauna or 

 better sinna from Vsad, sida, Simhalese hinnawa, innawa. 



10) Sanguruwanta, Dative plural of sanga " a (single) 

 priest." The Nominative would be sa5guruwo, as rajjuruwo 

 "kings." 



B. 



1) Siwu pasayen wana, u being L e.> that it may be, serve 

 for the four pratyaya's." Instr. for Dative, siwu or sbu 

 (pron. siu) " four" in compounds. This is only a corruption 

 of Pali catu°, found in inscriptions since the 12th century ; 

 in genuine Simhalese also in compounds the r is retained, 

 is catari paceni " of the four pratyayas" (Inscription 2nd 

 century A. D.) r satar pasa VI, B 20. The only exception 

 is with some numbers, as suwzsi 24, supajieas 54, (now 



