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It will be perceived at a glance that the Sinhalese has 

 followed the Prakrit very closely with the exception of the 

 changes peculiar to the language. 



In the Maldivian language the numerals are almost the 

 same as in the Sinhalese. The difference, as far as I am aware, 

 is that the progression in that language is by duodecimals instead 

 of decimals. They are eken, den, tinen, hataven, pahen, hayen, 

 haten, are?i, nuven, dihen, ekolahen, dolahen. Here they stop and 

 for thirteen they have dolos eken, which means " twelve + one." 

 This is continued up to "twenty-three" which is dolos ekolos, 

 and twenty-four is passihi : now passihi is evidently the same as 

 the Sinhalese ce^S, paswisi, which means "twenty-five." They 

 proceed on with passihi eken, passihi den, &c, and their " thirty- 

 six" is tindolos, (i. e., three twelves.) Their "forty-eight" is 

 panas, which is the Sinhalese for "fifty;" their "sixty" ispasdolos, 

 (i. e., five twelves); " eighty-four" is hayidolos, (i. e., seven 

 twelves ; " ninety six" is hiya, which is the same as the Sin- 

 halese SoS, sit/a, "'hundred." The real "hundred," however, 

 they call sata, which is the Pali form of the Sanskrit <233>, sata, 

 from which the Sinhalese Bc£, siya, is derived through the 

 Prakrit saya, as we have seen.* 



In the Dravidian group the Telugu and the Tamil, I 

 believe, stand foremost. The numerals in these two languages 

 are : — 





Telugu. 



Tamil. 



1 



, ondu ... 



,., onru. 



2 



rendu 



irandu. 



3 



mudu 



mtmdu. 



4 . . 



ndlugu 



ndlu. 



5 



aidit 



avndu. 



6 



dru 



uru. 



7 



edu 



eiu. 



8 



enimidu 



etpii 



9 



tommidi 



ompadu, 



10 



padi 



pattu. 



20 



iruvai 



irupadu . 



30 



muppai 



muppadu. 



40 



nalpata * ... 



narpadu. 



• Note,— "Maldive Numerals"- -Hon. Sec, 



