JOURNAL 



OF THE 



CEYLOI BRANCH 



OF THE 



ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY. 

 1881-83. 



VOLUME VII. 



EDITED BY THE HONORARY SECRETARY. 



"the design of the society is to institute and promote inquiries into the history 

 religion, literature, arts, and social condition of the present and former 

 inhabitants of the island, with its geology, mineralogy, its climate 

 and meteorology, its botany and zoology." 



COLOMBO . ^<^_L 

 THE U TIMES OF CEYLON " PRESS. 



18 84 . 



