258 jouknaLj k.a.s. (ceylon). [Vol. II, Pabt II. 



grammar, poetry, music, &c, having arrived in the beautiful 

 Island of Lanka (Ceylon) from the treasury (seat) of all 

 science (language) Gauda in the prosperous Jambuddwipa,* 

 and having inquired and learnt the Tripitaka doctrines from 

 the Eeverend and Venerable Sri Rahula Sthavirayo — Supreme 

 Master of the Tripitaka doctrines and Principal of the temple 

 Sri Sangabodhi Sri Wijayabahu — and being (also) greatly pleased 

 in mind (delighted) with the religion (or those doctrines), hath 

 with supremely sincere and greatly devout faith paraphrased 

 Nd?ia?i Yasya Samasta Wastu Wishayan j* and other stanzas 

 of the book composed by himself in praise of Buddha, and called 

 Bhaktisatakaya, " A Centum of Faith." 



(3) The third is what Europeans call " the bombastic " : 

 and so great is the difference of taste between Europeans and 

 the Sinhalese on the subject of composition, that I had almost 

 said the rules of English composition may be used with the 

 rule of contraries to attain a good native style. The Sin- 

 halese regard the bombastic as the best ; and the following 

 from the Devaduta sutra sanne will serve as an example : — 



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 a part of Asia. The Tripitaka doctrines embrace nearly the whole of 

 Buddha's sermons. 



f This is a part of the first stanza of the work called " Bauddha 

 Satakaya," one of the school books of the Sinhalese. 



