JOURNAL 



OF 



THE 



CEYLON 



BRANCH 



OF 



THE 



ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY, 



1907. 



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. 



COLOMBO : 



H. C. COTTLE, GOVERNMENT PRINTER, CEYLON. 



VOLUME XIX 



No, 58. 



1908. 



