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an associated or collective capacity, as in the Introduction to 

 the above book, where it is said, Budha preached the sutra 

 Damsak to many ; and among others, and especially, to the 

 five worthy sorts of priests— 



pas waga mahanun wahanse 



The Maha tera of whom we sometimes read, is also called 

 wahanse ; and Updli maha situ an important person, but whe- 

 ther the same with the Upalibj whom the "Winiya pitaka was 

 arranged, does not clearly appear. 



The same affix is given to Seriyut maha himiya, the great 

 proprietor, so called apparently from his being a great and 

 distinguished author of his time. And to Swaminy Nagase- 

 naya in his colloquy with the king,* wherein he shewed the 

 king, with great adroitness and felicity, the rapidity of a 

 defunct's passage throughout the universe to another birth, 

 by comparing it to the quickness of thought in the mind, 

 the celerity with which our thoughts pass from one object to 

 another. 



In these personages, and Upali maha situ, we may see 

 the respect and honours anciently in use to be given to 

 literature and philosophy ; using these high terms of course, 

 in the very limited and peculiar sense in which they must 

 here be taken. 



We have a further illustration of the extent of literary 

 fame in the wonderful Rdhula of Tottegamuwe, another dis- 

 tinguished literary character to whom the affix is given.— 



g e3®a<^a)3c3 g §dc3 Sto^ e^G^^ccStf^ ^BOasj 

 Sree sanghabodhi sree wijaya bahu pariwenadhipati tripitaka 



wagee swarachayarya sree Rahula stawira padayan wahanse 

 He seems, like another Rahu, to have eclipsed all others ; 

 and his birthplace passed into a proverb, but a proverb 



* Milindapprasne, ap. Sidatli' Sangara, p. cexxvii. 

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