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a man wearing red armlets. The right hand figure appears to be 
a man standing by some animal, perhaps a bear. The small 
figm-e at the bottom is painted in red. 
Plate III. — A: Bow and arrow, from a large cave at Tantri- 
malai. B : Talagoya ( ?) , from a large cave at Tantri-malai. C and 
D : Human figures, from a large cave at Tantri-malai. E : Human 
figure and the moon, from a large cave at Tantri-malai. F : 
Apparently two human figures in a house, from a large cave at 
Tantri-malai. 
Plate IV. — Figures from the same cave. Two human, the rest 
doubtful. 
Plate V. — Curious diagrams from a cave adjoining the last. 
One might represent a human being standing in the mouth of a 
cave. 
Plate VI. — In the same cave. Further diagrams : Two armed 
figures carrying bows ; large bow and arrow. This is the clan 
mark of the local Wanni people, and is branded upon their cattle. 
Plate VII. — A : A man with bow and arrow, from Andiya-gala. 
B: Sun, from Andiya-gala. C: Talagoya (?), from Andiya- gala. 
D : Two human figures in a house, from Billewa. E : Human 
figure, from Billewa. 
Plate VIII. — Group of figures from Billewa. Sambhur on the 
right ; in the centre a peacock, with something above it ; human 
figure low down on the left. The other diagram is unintelligible. 
John Still. 
APPENDIX B. 
Inscriptions at Tantri-malai. 
With all due deference I find myself unable to accept Mr. Still's 
reading of the three inscriptions, quoted in his Paper. 
Inscription (1). 
'* Ba ra ta pi da ha ti sa te ra ha.'^ 
Mr. Still says ; — " Baratapida ma>j be a name ; in which case 
the record would read * (that which) belongs to Baratapida and the 
monk Tisa ' ; or Barata may be a name, and pida perhaps derived 
from pudanavd, to offer." 
This is hardly correct. Evidently the difference between the 
hard d (©) and the soft d {q) did not occur to Mr. Still, or he 
would not have derived pida (8S)) from pudanavd (g^sD&i).* 
Pida is from " pinda,'' a lump, and pudanavd from puj» to 
worship. 
My rendering of the inscription is : " belongs to the monk 
Tissa of (the family of) Baratapida." 
* Yet chada in Inscription (3) is held to be chada. Confusion of dentals 
and cerebrals is not unknown in ancient inscriptions. — B., Ed. Sec. 
