JOUKNAL 



OF THE 



CEYLON BKANCH 



OF THE 



KOYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY, 



1908. 



VOLUME XXI. 

 No. 61. 



EDITED BY THE HONORARY SEORETARY. 



The design of the Society is ro4ic&fati^emd 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. G. COTTLE, GOVERNMENT PRINTER, CEYLON. 



1909. 



