NO. 5. — 1850.] THE ELU LANGUAGE. 



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Example. 



Tibrach. 



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®qe)<5}B-ssoq C3C3eOi33iS©c3 af — KaviyasekarL 

 The second institute of religion is said to be compounded of 

 five ingredients ; the taking — the deceit — the intent to steal — 

 another's property — and the knowledge thereof.* 



2. When a long or al sound is preceded by two short 

 sounds, as in species, the rythmical foot is called Wcuyagwne, 

 one of the bad feet. The Sinhalese have a belief that the 

 author of Guttila Jataka suffered transportation — a misfor- 

 tune, the result of his beautiful work having this foot at its 

 very commencement. That his first stanza is an anapoest is 

 true enough ;f but whether he at all suffered banishment 

 is not correctly known except from tradition. 



* This definition of the crime of theft, furtum, seems to be more 

 comprehensive than the one in the Institutes — Fur turn est contractatio 

 fraudulosa lucri faciendi gratia, vel ipsius ret, veletiam usus ejus, posses- 

 sionsive. I. At. 1 §. The text, when freely rendered into English, runs : 

 " The second institute of religion is said to be (the abstaining from) theft, 

 which comprehends the fraudulent taking away of another's property 

 with intent to steal (lucri causa), knowing that it is of another." 



f The stanza referred to is the following 



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8C38^&£^€3 dz 



®q&<£Q^®^£$Qg>£ridi dz 

 ©^©(^^©za^tf^g d z 

 £>^© §*863>®*rf £>®Q$<® d z 



I bow to (his) intelligent Highness (Buddha) — the preceptor of the 

 three worlds (who), haviDg subjugated all the evil propensities of his 

 nature — embellished with thirty (corporeal) beauties, thrived in the 

 (resulting) prosperity of hundreds of meritorious acts. — Guttila. 



Note. — " The subjugation of the evil propensities of human nature " 

 is a doctrine of Buddhism, according to which none but a Buddha can 

 enter into that holy state without fault or sin — a doctrine, too, similar t o 

 one of the three doctrinal maxims inculcated in the Elusinian Mysteries, 

 u the attainment of mental peace by a course of penetential purification." 



