JOURNAL 



OF 



THE 



CEYLON 



BRANCH 



OF 



THE 



ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY, 

 



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-Member^ Rs. 2. 



COLOMBO : 



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



VOLUME XV. 



No. 49. 



1899. 



