JOURNAL 



OF THK 



CEYLON BRANCH 



OF THE 



ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY, 



1889. 



EDITED BY THE HONORARY SECRETARY. 



The design of the Society is to institute and promote inquiries into the History, 

 Religions, Languages, Literature, Arts, and Social Condition of the present 

 and former Inhabitants of the Island, with its Geology and Mineralogy, 

 its. Climate and Meteorology, its Botany and Zoology. 



Price to Members, Re. 1 ; to Non-Members, Bs. 2. 



COLOMBO : 



GEORGE J. A. SKEEN, GOVERNMENT PRINTER, CEYLON. 



VOLUME XL 



No. 39. 



1892. 



