74 Forms of Salutation and Address 



highly characteristic of a Budhist people, with whom litera- 

 ture is good, but Budhism is better : — - 



Tottegannvwe tipannata mokada bana berinan. 

 What signifies being horn at Tottegamuwe if you don't know bana? 



We find the affix also with eooe)gd'i/^9? (hamudurcewo), 

 a compound term, and applied as a domestic appellation to 

 the head of a house or family, in a combined sense of master 

 and instructor. 



And in a deed written by Karangodde unnanse of Potgul 

 wiharein Saffragam, a. d. 1835, that priest describes himself 

 thus : 



Potgul wiharayiwas Karangodde sanga rakkhita unwahanse. 



The description here given signifies preserved or defended 

 by the priesthood ; and the Rev. Mr. Gogerly, who gives me 

 this explanation, adds, that priests when ordained take 

 names of that kind. 



In regard to Unnanse, that word is employed not only as 

 an affix of respect, but also substantively or as a pronoun of 

 the third person. In this way, it is given to every Budhist 

 priest ; and the ®*s)d (tera) or old priest of a wihare, who has 

 attained his degree, is a Terunnanse. 



The word is not used, however, to any other than such 

 priest : — it is not given to the kapuwa or god's priest, nor to 

 the yakadura or devil's priest, nor to the balikariya or planet 

 priest. For the poor Singhalese are by their fears, fostered 

 by their very creed, beset on every side with malignant in- 

 fluences, which like the red untwinklingeyes of their witches 

 never rest in their baneful operation. And it is observable^ 

 that even Budha, when he found a demon prowling about 

 for an opportunity to catch hold of an infant child in order to 

 eat it, (so says the J ataka) did not attempt to do more than 

 chide her, and repeat to her the commandments as a help to 

 her. His reproof was in these words 



