known among the Singhalese. 69 



through a third person, leave to speak qp9*rcd' g^G^S^S) 

 (aiuasara labenawa ) to receive permission, must be expressed, 

 Chater, p. 134. And so, in like manner, in approaching and 

 withdrawing, there must be leave to come and leave to go. 



€>ea<2r$<?>e£ (wahanse) is added as an affix to the term for 

 God, and to all the names of God ; as also in some relative 

 expressions, as to Father in the Lord's prayer, cf&^SBxo&i&l 

 Stages apage piydnan icahanse. 



But under the word^Sc^QeasrSoel ( Dewiyan wahanse) 

 Ciough points out the difference in its use. Innumerable 

 instances, he says, occur of the honorific being used in the 

 vocative, in which case it may be addressed not only to one 

 of these beings (the gods of Swarga), but also to a king, or 

 any person of rank ; but when used in the nominative, it 

 marks at once the difference between a heathen god and the 

 Supreme being. 



"Whatever may be in this, it is certain that the continual 

 recurrence of the honorifics in the Singhalese translation of 

 Holy Scripture, soon offends us ; and in some cases, as Je- 

 hovah wahanse, the affix almost shocks, coming upon the ear 

 like some discordance in an otherwise heavenly melody. 



It were to be wished, therefore, that Christianity could be 

 here attired in a garb more accordant with the simplicity and 

 sincerity of its spirit. 



The flatterers of king Dutugemini called him a god.— 



Ikbeeti pin kiriya wat kiyanno Dutugemini rajahataraese 



kivya — Dewiyanwahansa adadakwa nubawahanse wisin 

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 ekak adu wihara siyayak karawuseka ekarawu wiharawalin 



Mirisawetiwiharayata, &c. 



Tupawanse, ap. Sidath Sangarawa, p. clxxv. 

 Then those whose duty it was to declare the meritorious acts 

 ( of Budhism) done by King Dutugemini , said, Dewiyan 



