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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[August, 1879.
By far the most interesting inscription at (I. A. u. 8.p. 321), is not given there in its Tissamahârâma is that inside the Dagobe, which whole extent. I therefore reproduce it here :was visible at the time when Dr. Goldschmidt Siddham! Aparimite lokehi Buddhasame nati visited the place. I give the transcript accord- athêne parimandale be ............. ing to his notes :
• savanyatopete anutare sathe mahesarane Siddham! Mahanaka rajaha pute Alunaks raja lakicake Budha nimi Nakamahawihera kara [hi] Golagamavila ca Gola- Sayambhu me galahi wihera nira ............... gamaketa waga............ gama ca nama.
nama Budha saranagate miciya ditika bindiya ... Hail! king Aluna k a, son of king Maha- ...... niyate. naga, built (or enlarged ?) the N & gama há
Translation. wih â ra, the tank, and the field of Golagama Hail! in the boundless universe there is no ............'
equal to Buddha, not bound by space, all coterThe fact alluded to in this inscription con- ing, endowed with omniscience, unrivalled, the cerning the Nâgama h â wihara is also Teacher, the great Refuge, the wheel of prosrelated in the 35th chapter of the Mahawanso,
perity is Buddha, the self-existent. The wihara (p. 217 of Turnour's edition). It was built on this rock ........ called ............ is granted according to the Mahawanso, p. 130, by king to .................. who has put his trust into M&h â någa, the second brother of Dewa- Buddha, having reduced the heretics.' nampiya Tissa. It is not the same wihara There are some more inscriptions near which is called Mahagama raja Maha Kirinde; two cave inscriptions which offer no wih ara, after king Kå kavanna Tissa, particular interest at a place called Galgedara the father of Dutthagamini, in the inscrip- (stone-house) in the jungle four miles off, and one tion from Tissa Mahârâma that is now in the rock inscription at Angunu kola wihara. Colombo Musuem (Goldschmidt's Report I. A. The latter, although comparatively well preu. 8. p. 321). The statement made here that served, has until now resisted my efforts to Ila nâga was the son of Mah â datika decipher it. Another one completely effaced is Ma hân â ga does not agree with the Mahá- at Dur á wa, one mile and a half on the road waiso, according to which he was his grand- to Hambantota. son.
The places beyond Kirinde I was unfortuGrammatically interesting is the change from nately not able to visit owing to the continuous g to k, which seems to have been frequent in rain, but I give here from Dr. Goldschmidt's ancient Siņhalese, e.g. baka = bhága, yáku= notes the transcript of a rather interesting yavagu, etc.
inscription at Situlpa wihara (ChittalaThe inscription at Kirinde, although dealt pabbato in the Maháwariso) 22 miles from with at some length in Dr. Goldschmidt's Report Kirinde:
1 Siddham Nakamaharajaha puta Batiya Tisa maharajahs maļu Ti ........ • maharaja atasa ... ta Tisa Kvahawana [tab] iya Chitalapawata atiņa samaya dakini Ti $ sa aleya wawi, akala kotu kana waya Nakamaharajaha [ce] taha ... ta mudawatiyata chi • hatakaradorahi tumaha akala [ko] tu karitakojarahala ca ...... dasapahata tayi jina (pali) satari. ... ... ... kotu dini dakapata sakalasamata dini. Translation.
The king mentioned here is Kanittha Hail! The son of king [Mallaka] Naga, Tissa (155--173 A.D.), whose reign is dealt the brother of king Batiya Tisa, king (Kanittha] with in the 36th chapter of the Maháwarnso, Tisa........ repaired the Chitalapаbbata p. 225 of Turnour's edition. The Chittalapabestablished by Kåka vanna Tisa and the bato was founded together with the Mahagama tanks of Dakhiņa and Tisa....... and the Mahê wihara (see above) by king Kåkawanna chaitya of king Någa (i... Tissamaharama) Tissa according to Maháwariso, chapter xxii. having remitted the taxes. . . . . . and having p. 131. performed deeds not (formerly) done (even) by I here subjoin a list of all the kings, which himself ...... having repaired the decayed are mentioned in inscriptions in the Sonthern buildings. ....... after having seen, he Province, in their chronological order between gave it over altogether.
the first and fourth centuries A.D. -
