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nelis of cleaned rice at the rate of four for each of them, curry worth 

 eight gold (massas), nine cocoanuts, seven young cocoanuts, 

 three and half packets of jaggery ; for lamp-oil, six cocoanuts ; 

 for the daily use of the Vihara, thirty hetel leaves, filteen areca- 

 nuts ; to the Vidane, fifteen hetel leaves and seven arecanuts ; 

 to the rest, forty-eight hetel leaves, twenty-four arecanuts, and 

 for one month fifty (nelis) of salt, six chillies, nine fanams worth 

 of onions, cumin seed, turmeric, &c. ; for hutter and ointment 

 for the head, twenty-two and half nelis ; for the annual use of 

 the Vihara, two cloths worth a hundred fanams for two yellow 

 rohes ; one cloth for an under garment worth twenty-five 

 fanams ; one alms (covering) cloth worth seven (fanams) ; two 

 pieces of cloth for sore-bandages worth ten ; eight 13 priestly 

 requisites, (such as) the water strainer, &c. ; one (set of) 

 twenty-one chairs used in reciting the Magul Pirita ; 14 canopies, 

 hed-sheets, curtains, screens, &c. ; for the rest of the priests, 

 ten pieces of cloth, valued at thirty (fanams ?) each, for ten 

 rohes. Moreover, the royal pleasure is that, in the case of sick 

 priests, until their recovery from sickness, the expenses for 

 sick diet, &c, should he home without diminution ; that the 

 village of Nikapaya in the District of Panabunu granted from 

 the place (throne) on which (the king) was seated, should he 

 (appropriated) for the supply of the four 15 priestly requisites 

 with a view to the maintenance of the Vihara ; that five amunas 

 he allowed to the (Vidane) manager from the several villages 

 belonging to the Vihara ; that from the remaining income, to 

 each of the priests coming from the four quarters, four nelis of 

 rice, curry worth one gold (massa), one cocoanut, half a packet 

 of jaggery, one young cocoanut, salt, chillies, turmeric, mustard, 

 butter, lamp oil, &c, ten betel leaves, five arecanuts (shall he 

 given) ; and to one elderly priest, five (nelis) rice, curry worth 

 three gold massas, four cocoanuts, one packet of jaggery, one 

 (neli) of salt, two young cocoanuts, chillies, onions, turmeric, 

 mustard, butter, and oil for the head ; thirty betel leaves, fifteen 

 arecanuts, one cup of oil for lamps, mats, sheets, water-pots, &c, 

 sufficient to accommodate him for three days (should be given) ; 

 that alms be given for three days regularly to the priests who 



