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by both parties, whither can I betake myself?' \ Within 

 my dominions,' said he, ' to any place thou pleasest, which is 

 unconnected with Yakkhos ; and I will maintain thee with a 

 thousand bali offerings.' She who had been thus interdicted 

 (from re-uniting herself with the Yakkhos) with clamorous 

 lamentation, taking her children with her, in the character of 

 an inhuman being, wandered to that very city (Laiikapura) 

 of inhuman inhabitants. She left her children outside the 

 Yakkha city. A Yakkho who detested her, recognising her 

 in her search for a dwelling, went up to her. Thereupon 

 another fierce Yakkho, among the enraged Yakkhos, asked : 

 i Is it for the purpose of again and again spying out the peace 

 we enjoy that she is come ?' In his fury he killed the 

 Yakkhini with a blow of his open hand. Her uncle (a Yakkho 

 named Kumaro) happening to proceed out of the Yakkha 

 city, seeing these children outside the town — i Whose children 

 are ye ?' said he. Being informed ' Kuweni's,' he said : 1 Your 

 mother is murdered : if ye should be seen here, they would 

 murder you also — fly quickly.' Instantly departing thence, 

 they repaired to the (neighbourhood of the) Sumanta moun- 

 tain. The elder having grown up, married his sister, and 

 settled there. Becoming numerous by their sons and daugh- 

 ters, under the protection of the King they resided in that 

 Malaya district. This person ( Jiwahatto) retained the attri- 

 butes of the Yakkhos."* 



Now, I submit that the rendering of the words " 6^033 

 e^Q&y^motfi S3©sn<9©3" \_Eso pullnddnan hi sambhavo] by "this 

 person (Jiwahatto) retained the attributes of the Yakkhos," is 

 erroneous, and that the words should be rendered " This is the 

 origin of the Pulinda" — i. e.,the Veddds. 1 



* Tumour's " Mahdwan&o" Vol. I., p. 52 : Cotta, 1837. Followed by 

 Forbes' "Eleven Years in Ceylon," Vol. II., p. 81 ; Fridham's " Ceylon, &c," 

 Vol. I., p. 27 ; and Tennent's " Ceylon," Vol. I , p. 371.— Hon. Sec. 



