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23. Heading tunmana for tunpana, 



24. The Sinhalese paraphrase of the Attanagaluwansa has piyawasdwa for the 



Pali puppddlidna which means ' a flower-receptacle ' or ' floral seat.' 



25. Literally: 'offerings of lamps of camphor in earthenware.' 



26. Reading dahas, 'thousands' for .... s. 



27. Read un for unu. 



28. Read wihdraraltslidwe for wiharaksMwe. 



29. Samadaruwan = sdmidaruwan, 'lords,' 'masters,' or 'overseers.' 



30. Pasakun — 'cooks' as being derived from pdcliaka 'one who cooks' (P. and S.) 



31. This is doubtful. 



32. Padeniye, — the cavities between the circular rings of a dagaba 



33. Pane = modern pand ' combs' : perhaps a kind of brush is meant here. 



34. Naliana — (from the Pali nalidnam~) means that which is applied, while 



bathing, to clean the person = the modern ndnv ' unguents.' 



35. Ganun = modem gdnannm ' those who smear.' 



36. Mangvl m indiyan, — this might also be rendered ' female servants employed 



on festive occasions.' 



37. Mwvanmeli — from Matnamdli, another form of Ruwanweli. 



38. Tlmpdrdma — the most ancient dagaba, built by LMwananpiyatissa. 



39. Washetat — an archaism for wasndivuntat. 



40. Pretayanta — ' departed spirits doomed to suffer extreme misery.' 



41. Pet — from the Pali patti ' acquisition,' ' communication to others of the 



merit one has acquired,' when it is more commonly written pat I'iddna. 



42. Read tamanta for tamata. 



43. Reading pujdwayi impu 



No. 2. 



Inscription at Pepiliya'NA. 



The cop) r of the Inscription from which the following 

 translation has been made, is a transcript of another copy in the 

 possession of L. De Soyza Malm Mudaliyar, who courteously 

 lent it to the translator. It is to he regretted that the Maha 

 Mudaliyar 's health prevents him from completing the translation 

 which he undertook some years back. 



With a view to test the accuracy of the copy, the translator 

 visited the temple-premises at Pepiliyana, but, to his great 

 disappointment, he found the stone in detached fragments built 

 up into a wall, and the fragments themselves so much defaced 

 that they could not be utilized for testing the stvle or spelling 



