JOURNAL 
* OF THE 
CEYLON BRANCH 
OF THE 
ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY, 
1904. 
VOLUME XVIIL 
No. 55. 
EDITED BY THE HONORARY SECRETARY. 
The design of the Society is to institute and promote inquiries into the History^ 
Religions, Languages, Literature, Arts, and Social Condition of the present 
and former Inhabitants of the Island, with its Geology and Mineralogy, 
its Climate and Meteorology, its Botany and Zoology. 
COLOMBO : 
GEORGE J. A. vSKEEN, GOVERNMENT PRINTER, CEYLON. 
1905. 
