No. 34.-— 1887.] SINHALESE INSCRIPTIONS. 



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rakna lebeda e uttamayage pada dhuli Senalankadhikari 

 namwu ma wisin suvanda mal samuhayak men mage ismudu- 

 nen pudana ladi. 



" Sanrakshitun dharmamanekarupanbaddhanjalirmurdhani 

 yachate so. 



" Jatannarendranapi jayamanan mantriswaran savinya(28) 

 jitana bahu sri." 



(1) Sampiirriawu me kusala dharmaya upan rajottamayan 

 wahanse wisinut matu upadina (3) epa mahapa, situ senevirat 

 (2) rajottamayan wisinut upan amatyottamayan wahanse 

 wisinut matu upadina (4) pradhana mahatun wisinut esema 

 dhanavanta srivanta Demala Sinhala senawa wisinut meki 

 paridden Sri maha viharaya sanrakshana paripalana karana 

 yam uttamayek et nam owunta dasanakhasamodhanayen 

 dohot mudunehi endili benda wendemiyi kiya Bodhisatwa 

 charitayak men utumwii gun a eti Lanka Senevirat maha 

 rajanan wisin mese yachSa keleyi : — 



" Dana palanayormaddhye danan(29) sreyo nupalanam 

 " Danat(30) swargan cha prapnoti palanadachyutan padan." 



yana me subhashita vachanayen tama tama dimaya anun 

 dunna raksha kirimaya yana yukti kramayen bijuvata(31) 

 pihituwiiwanta wad a wetakota rakshakaja ayata e sasyapha- 

 layen prayojana wana heyin da daruwan wedu meniyanta 

 wad a sutapremayen etikalawunta e putrayagen prayojana 

 wana heyin da pinkamehi wachana matravakin kayavyayama- 

 kin wat sahayawii satpurusha kenek et nam matu divya 

 manushya sampat sadha kelawara ama maha nivan dakinta 

 utsaha katayutu. 



A'rogyamastu. 



(Translation.) 

 (May there be) health. 



In the third year of me, Bhuvanaika Bahu, the supreme lord 

 oi the three-fold Sinhala, who ascended the throne of Lanka 

 in the 1266th year of the illustrious Saka era, on the fifteenth 



Siddhirastu. 

 Subhamastu. 



Kalyanamastu. 

 Chiran Jivamastu. 



