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JOURNAL, R.A.S. (CEYLON). [VOL. XIY. 



A curious and favourite method of naming places is to call 

 them after some single event, sometimes quite trivial, con- 

 nected with them in the minds of those new settlers who, 

 unacquainted with their original names, first found some 

 other method of describing them necessary. Of this kind are 

 the following names : — 



Aliyanchayntakulam 

 Anaipidittakulam 

 Anaiviluntan 

 Karippaddamurippu 



Kidappidittakulam 



Kidachchiiri 



Maninrakulam 



Maviddankeni 



Maraiyadittakulam 



Maraikkutti 



Narikadittapmidi 



Pulipanchakallu 



Panrichurichchan 



Panrikeytakulam 



Udumpupanchan 



Ariyankurichuddakulam 



Kurivaichchan 

 Kur iy iddaku lam 

 Kurichuddakulam 



tank where the elephant fell down 



tank where the tusked elephant was caught 5 * 



where the elephant fell 



breach (in bund) where the elephant died. 

 The next village is called Manavalaa- 

 paddamurippu ; and Manavalan, which 

 means " bridegroom " is said to have been 

 the name of another elephant which died 

 here 



tank where the buffalo was caught 



where the buffalo stuck in the mud 



tank where the deer stood 



tank where the deer got away 



tank where the elk (sambur) was struck 



where the elk was stabbed {kuttu =pierce) 



village (grove) where the jackal bit 



rock where the leopard jumped 



where the pig stuck in the mud 



tank where the pig was shot with an arrow 



where the iguana ran 



tank where Ariyan branded (cattle). Ariyan 

 is a sort of Balbus of the Vanni. There 

 is another tank called Ariyakkonrari, 

 " where Ariyan was killed and he has 

 also a madu called after him. {The pro- 

 per name Ariyan, however, has the initial 

 A long, but in these names the krag sound 

 seems to have been lost) 



where the branding was done 

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* An incident of this kind has given its name to a whole pattm in the 

 Chilaw District, viz., the Anaiviluntan Pattu of Pitigai Korale North. 

 The pattu, which bore this name in Knox's time, as appears fromMsmap, 

 takes it from a village the name of which has been Sinhalaelzed into 

 Anawilundewa. There are also in the North-Central Province the form 

 Anaolondewa, and a Sinhalese name Aliyawetunuwewa (in which case, 

 however, the elephant that came to grief was not a tusker). 



