No. 5.— 1850.] 



THE ELU LANGUAGE. 



283 



(see page 283*) by Koratota Terunndnse, who received a 

 handsome reward from his sovereign, Rajadhi Rajasinha,* 

 for the cleverness and ability with which he introduced 

 into one diagram twelve well-meant elegant stanzas. 



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(4) I bow to the great Sirigana (Buddha), f who abstained 

 from idle praise (exaggeration) ; (3) who was firm, renowned, 



* The writer has given his name and the date of his composition, &c, 

 in the following stanzas. The Saka era (from the date of the reign of 

 a king of that name) is much in use among Sinhalese scholars. It 

 commences 78 years after the Christian era. 



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Rev. Dhammarama, the disciple of the Preceptor of three Sovereigns, 

 hath composed this novel diagram embodying twelve stanzas, in the sixth 

 year of the reign of Rajadhi Rajasinha, and in the year of Saka 1708 : — 



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This king, having with delight seen with his eyes this diagram, like 

 unto a noose on the necks of his (the writer's) rival poets, has made an 

 offering to this Chief Priest of an estate called Pallebedda, as 

 long as the earth shall endure (in perpetuity). 



f There are no less than twenty-six epithets for Buddha. They are 

 embodied in the following six lines from the " Namavaliya" : — 



