No. 24.— 1881.] ORIGIN OF THE VEDDAS. 95 



111 the first place, the word "gg^D^" [Pulinda] which Mr. 

 Tumour renders by " Yakkhos " (who are supposed to be 

 supernatural beings), is never applied to Yakkhos, but means 

 Veddds. The following is the meaning given by Professor H. 

 H. Wilson in his Dictionary of the Sanskrit language, p. 545 : 

 " S. V. Pulinda, a barbarian ; a mlechch'ha ; a savage or 

 mountaineer ; one who uses an uncultivated and unintelligible 

 dialect, &c." 2 The Sinhalese vocabulary, the NdmdvaUya, 

 gives " Pulindu" as one of the synonyms for Veddas, 

 ©t§ g<ge, ©^53<5 ©t^ficf©).* 

 [Vedi, mal, pulinda, vanasara (nam veddanta).] 



Strangely, this word does not occur in the Pali language. 

 It is not found in the A bh idhdnwppadip Ikd, the only author- 

 ized vocabulary of the Pali language, nor in Guilders' Pali 

 Dictionary, nor in any other Pali work I have seen. But this 

 need not excite much surprise, as Sanskrit words, not found in 

 the Pali vocabulary, are sometimes found in Pali writings; 

 e. g., in this very chapter of the Mali a wan so the word 

 a t£p£oC£)o" [surunga], which is pure Sanskrit and not found 

 in the Pali vocabulary, is used for a " subterraneous abode." 



In the second place, " 03©e^(^e)3" \§ambhaw\ which Mr. 

 Tumour translates " attributes, 1 ' means, according to Childers' 

 Pali Dictionary (p. 431), "production, birth, origin, cause, 

 union, &c, &c." 



The demonstrative adjective "6^033" [eso] (nom. sing, 

 m.) Mr. Tumour refers to Jlwakatto understood, but the more 



* Alwis' Ndmdvaliya, p. 59, v. 225. Colombo, 1858. As also the Nuva- 

 ndmavuliya, p. 14, v. 109 : — 



&l<? i q*5i<D..,v&)6, g<gg, ©^)S3d, ©e«?tfi (q) 



Veddanta ... Sabara, vedi, pulindu, vanasara, maladaru (^ a ) 

 Milindu, levi (me nam sata vedihata nami da). 



Note by Hun. Sec. 



