JOURNAL 



OP THE 



CEYLON BRANCH 



OF THE 



ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY 



VOLUME XVII. 

 1901-1902. 



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, ACTING GOVERNMENT PRINTER, CEYLOF, 



1903. 



