No. 25—1882.] two Sinhalese inscriptions. 



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of the transcript. The translator has, therefore, taken the 

 liberty to note and italicise what he considers clerical errors and 

 place the proposed readings at the bottom of each page. He 

 will feel thankful to any persons who may favor him with their 

 remarks on the doubtful words of the text which he has noted, 

 or suggest any better readings than those proposed by him.* 



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* Mr. L. De Soysa read a Paper on the Pepiliyana inscription before the 

 Society some years ago, but it was not printed in the Journal at the time, 

 and is now lost. The following extract from the Paper appeared in the 

 Ceylon Times of June 11th, 1873 :— 



" This inscription, is to be found on a rock on the site of an ancient Bud- 

 dhist Temple near Kotte, where from A. D. 1410 to A. D. 1542 Sinhalese 

 Kings held Court. 



"No part of the ancient buildings of the Temple now remain, having been, 

 it is said, levelled to the ground, by the Portuguese who destroyed this and 

 other buildings in and near Kotte. 



" My copy of the inscription was taken from one in the possession of a 

 Buddhist Priest who now occupies the m< lern Pansala built on the supposed 

 site of the ancient Temple, and I was informed by him that his teacher's 

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