JOURNAL 



OF THE 



CEYLON BRANCH 



OF THE 



ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY 



1897. 



VOLUME XV. 

 No. 48. 



EDITED BY THE HONORARY SECRETARY, 



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

 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. 



COLOMBO : 



H. C. COTTLE, ACTING GOVERNMENT PRINTER, CEYLON, 



1898. 



