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There is a similar charm used even by the low-country Sinhalese in 

 cases of tooth-ache. It is as follows : — 



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Iri deyiyanne eya 



Sanda deyiyanne eya 



Pase Budunne eya, 



Date nositu dat eya 



Worm of the sun-god ! 

 Worm of the moon-god ! 

 Worm of the Pase Budu ! 



Stay not in the tooth, O tooth- worm ! — L. De Z. 



[This charm (No. 2) and the almost identical one known to the 

 Sinhalese are given by Mr. Bailey :— 



"It not only invokes the sun and moon, but Pase Budu — the 

 only single allusion to Buddhism among them ; but the very meaning 

 of this and other charms is unknown to the Veddas. They are 

 repeated by rote ; they do not pause to understand them, and could 

 not if tbey would. It is enough for them, as for most Oriental people, 

 that a particular formula is to serve a particular purpose. These 

 [charms] are identical ; yet the Veddas and the Sinhalese certainly 

 do not associate so closely as to borrow one another's charms. Have 

 they descended in each race since the time they were one ? The 

 term okmd I can get no satisfactory explanation of. It is not Sinha- 

 lese certainly. I assume it means ' wild boar/ as this is the charm 

 to arrest a boar in the path ; but it is not the term used by the 

 Veddas for a boar in ordinary conversation. The allusion to the 

 Pase, or Pache, Buddha, is curious as occurring in both ; the one 

 people being anything but Buddhists, while Buddhism is the religion 

 of the others. As Gautama Buddha visited Ceylon long anterior to 

 the final establishment of Buddhism in Ceylon, and descended in 

 Bintenna, may not this solitary allusion to the religion have been 

 handed down in this form among the Veddas from a period even 

 before the invasion by Vijayo ? In the form of a charm which is 

 repeated by rote, such an allusion would be most naturally retained. 



