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§ Bisdva stands for disdka, meaning- " quarter " or " direction," here 

 technically used as the title of a chief of a district. 



|| The fact that Lewuke was the Disawa of the Four Korales in 1745 is, 

 so far as I know, not stated in any of the records hitherto published. We 

 have here the earliest authentic reference to him in name and title, by 

 which we are able now to identify this Lewuke with the Disawa of Four 

 Korales who played an important part in the negotiations of the Dutch 

 with the Sinhalese in the last century. 



Lewuke was a staunch Buddhist, and as such he did much to patronize 

 his religion. He restored viharas, and endowed them with lands for the 

 maintenance of the priesthood. A representation of him "wearing the 

 peculiar red conical hat of the day " may be found painted on the right 

 wall inside the Dambullakanda vihare — a rock-cut temple in Walgam 

 Pattuwa of Kinigoda Korale. — (See "Report on the Kegalla District,"' 

 Sessional Paper XIX., 1892, p. 39.) 



^ Tenanneha (lit. "the lord of a place") means an "officer" or 

 " minister." It is a compound of tenan and vehe, the semivocal v being 

 here assimilated to the preceding n. The origin of this n is not clear. It 

 may, as Professor Kuhn suggests, be a relic of the sign of the genitive 

 plural. We know, however, that it is always added to the stem of Sinhalese 

 nouns signifying animate objects in the formation of oblique cases in the 

 plural, as guruhta satun, visdkdvange. velandungen, &c. Tena or tenia 

 (Sans, sthdna) is used here in the sense of " one in possession of a place 

 or situation." Vehe is Sans. Bhavat (nom. havdn), used as a term of 

 respect in speaking of a person. The third person singular present indicative 

 of bhu is in Maharashtri and Hindi Prakrit, havai, from which a participle 

 havat (nom. hdvdn for bhdvdn) can be formed. It may well be that the 

 Sinhalese vaha or vaha comes from this Prakrit form havat of Sans, bhavat; 

 havat becoming by metathesis vahat, then vahay or vahay, and finally vehft 

 or vaha. In vahanse we have again the insertion of the n before the suffix m. 



** Visin in Sinhalese, considered an instrumental affix, is in reality an 

 altered form of Sanskrit or Pali vasena, the instrumental of vasam used 

 adverbially (Childer's Pali Diet.) and in composition with the preceding- 

 word. 



ff Dakkavdpu stands for the past participle of causative dahhavanawd. 



%X Tuwahhuva, a word of Persian origin meaning " firearm," which, 

 appears under various forms in many languages of Europe and Asia. 



4. The following Paper was read by the writer : — 



