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JOURNAL, R.A.S. (CEYLON). [VOL. XXI. 



According to this and other books on Sinhalese music there 

 are five primary tolas, from which it is said that all the vrita 

 wannam, and tola evolved. The five tolas are subdivided 

 into 32 rdga, 64 gita, 64 disti, 5 Ula, 32 tdlam, 18 wannam, 9 

 nasty a, 28 sural, 64 sawudam, and 64 saramba and 64 tola. 

 The m(/a, gita, Ula, wannam, and are different varieties of 

 poetry and songs to different tunes ; disti, sural, sawudam, and 

 saramba and tdlam are the various padas played on different 

 musical instruments (such as the bera, daula, udekkiya, &c.) ; 

 and nostya and saramba and tdlampada again are the 

 different dances. The tola and tdlam, however, rule singing, 

 playing on instruments, and dancing, for the 5 tola are the 5 

 primary rules of music. The whole system of ancient music 

 is said to have evolved out of the primary pancha tola — 

 tat dit tit ton nan, which in turn developed into the " atataya, 

 vitataya, vitatdtaya, ghanaya, rushiraya, and mrijanga-vmd- 

 nddaya," the main divisions of the system of ancient music. 



The musical instruments named in this book are tola bera, 

 paid bera, raudra bera, teka bera, deduru bera, perum bera, ghosa 

 bera, pokuru bera, ekes bera, kana bera, mihingu bera, dekki, 

 gigiri udekki, tdlampota, vind, kombu, horani, wasdandu nald, 

 which with vocal music form the " Panchaturya-ndda " of 

 the ancients. 



I quote the first of the 32 tdlan pada from this manuscript. 

 It is called the Sembatta Tdlama. 



The tdlama is : — 



The pada is as follows : — 



First part. 



Second part. 



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