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Vandura gaclia uda liyadalu kad di 



Vendiri gacha mula kandulu perad di 



E'ge daruvo kole natad di 



Udakki kanpotu diye obad di 



What time the male monkey eats the tender leaves on the tree, 

 What time the female monkey sheds tears at the foot of the tree, 

 While her young ones dance on the leaves, 

 And dip their udakki-sha,-ped ears in the water. 



NOTES. 

 No. h 



" The following is a literal translation of the same passage, 

 In the copy of the Mahawanso, in the Asgiri Vihara in Kandy : — ■ 

 6 They repaired to the rock Samanta kuta ; and, being permitted by 

 King Vijayo to dwell there, they became man and wife, and had 

 children and grandchildren. Thus, a wansaya (race) sprung up? 

 called Pulinda.' " — J. B. 



No. 2. 



" Vide note at page 185 of Wilson's Vishnu Purana. ' Pulinda is 

 applied to any wild or barbarous tribe; and they are met with in 

 the deserts along the Indus, the mountains and forests across Central 

 India.' "-—«/. B. 



No. 3. 



"I have mads careful inquiries, both in these [Rayigam and 

 Pasdun] Korales and the district of Saffragam, and though traces of 

 their former existence there are evident and numerous, there is every 

 reason to believe that many centuries have passed since they were 

 there. Fields, villages, and families yet retain the" name of Veddas, 

 as Vedi-pangu, Vedde-kumhura, Vedde-watta, Vedde-ela, Vedde- 

 gala f Vedde-ge, &c, in the district of Saffragam, which is the 

 country at the foot of Adam's Peak, and in the Rayigam Kdrale. 



