JOURNAL 



OF THE 



CEYLON BRANCH 



OF THE 



ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY, 



1909. 



The design of the Society is to institute and promote inquiries into the 

 History, Religions, Languages, Literature, Arts, and Soeiai Condition 

 of the present and former Inhabitants of the Island, with its 

 Geology and Mineralogy, its Climate and Meteorology, 

 its Botany and Zoology, 



COLOMBO s 



H. C. COTTLE, GOVERNMENT PRINTER, CEYLON. 



1910. 



