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



Inscriptions. 



Mr. Parker has promised a report " dealing with the 

 archaeology of the northern part of the Island," and giving 

 the inscriptions copied by him, but it has not yet appeared.* 



There is an inscription on the inner side of one of the 

 boulders on the Periyapuliyankulam rock, which has been 

 copied by Mr. Murray, but it has not been published.! 



A square inscribed pillar found by Mr. Nevill at Mutali- 

 ydkulam, and the upper half of the pillar found on the 

 bund of Chinnapuvarasankulam, as already described, 

 are now in the Assistant Government Agent's premises at 

 Vavuniya. 



The inscription on the latter has not been copied, and 

 neither inscription has been translated. 



There is "a fine and interesting rock inscription by 

 Megha wanna Abhaya II. (302-30 A.D.) " near the Maniyar- 

 Jculam tank. J 



Iratperiyakulam. — Inscription by King Gaja Bahu I. on 

 the bund, recording a gift of food to the priesthood at the 

 Tihadaya Vihare, on the shore of the Alawichcha lake. It is 

 almost certain that we have here the ancient name of the 

 tank.§ 



Mdmadu. — Inscription by Kassapa V. (937-54 A.D.), stating 

 that in his thirteenth year he repaired this and other tanks. § 



Mahdkachchatkodi. — Inscriptions over the entrances to the 

 caves ; probably of date B.C.|| 



Olumadu. — A broken pillar on the bund inscribed on its 

 four faces with characters of the tenth century.^ This 



* Sessional Papers, 1886, page 109. 



t Diary of January 25, 1893 ; but see also Mr. Haughton's diary of 

 January 21, 1883, p. 107. 



% Sessional Papers, 1886, page 109. 

 § Sessional Papers, 1886, page 185. 

 || Sessional Papers, 1886, page 186. 



^[ The stone on which, this inscription is engraved was broken by the 

 Public Works Department coolies, but fortunately it has been repaired. 

 The upper part is illegible from having been used as a curry-stone. 

 {December 16, 1886.) 



