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to be the property of Buddha, Dharinma, and the Priesthood, and 

 (then), in the first place, he called the Vihara " Sunetra Maha 

 Devi Pirivena" after the illustrious name of the great Queen ; 

 gave the name of " Sunetra Maha Devi Piriven Tera" to the 

 Priest Mangala who had completed his course of study under 

 the great priest Galaturumula Medhankara who was the high 

 priest of this Vihara ; and directed that a priest in pupillary 

 succession from him (Mangala), who is qualified to promote the 

 cause of the (Buddhist) religion by answering questions and 

 reciting bana, be appointed to reside in the Vihara. 



The produce of the above-mentioned lands is to be appro- 

 priated as follows : — For the Bodhi, Natha Maitri 7 (Dewale) 

 and each of the (other) Dewalas, each day, fifteen nelis 8 of four 

 patas 9 each of cleaned rice for the sake of food, curry worth three 

 massas of gold, 10 three cocoanuts, one packet of jaggery, three- 

 quarters of a neli of salt ; one massa worth of onions, cumin seed, 

 and turmeric ; five cocoanuts for lamp-oil ; one thousand sweet- 

 smelling flowers ; twenty-six betel leaves ; fifteen arecanuts ; one 

 or two nelis of chillies for one month, two nelis of butter, eight 

 palams 11 of sandal for ointment ; three palams of agallochum, 

 three palams of sandal, and three palams of bdellium for 

 incense ; for the annual offering, one hundred and fifty nelis 

 of rice husked without boiling and cleaned, and a hundred 

 cocoanuts ; for the offering of lamp-light, a thousand cocoanuts ; 

 for the special offering made from the 5th day of the bright 

 half of Wesak (May- June) on which Her Majesty the Queen 

 went to heaven to the 15th of the bright half, three hundred 

 nelis of rice husked without boiling and cleaned, and two hundred 

 cocoanuts ; for the offering of lamp-light, two thousand cocoa- 

 nuts ; to one priest who writes one thousand seven hundred 

 granthas 12 of the Tripitaka in one month, three nelis of rice, two 

 gold massas' worth of curry, two cocoanuts, ten betel leaves, 

 five arecanuts for each day ; ten (nelis) of salt, one of chilly, one 

 fanam worth of onions, cumin seed, turmeric, &c, for one 

 month ; one hundred fanams for clothing for one "year ; to the 

 Principal of the Vihare, five nelis of cleaned rice for his daily 

 meals ; to five resident priests of the establishment, twenty-six (?) 



