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megha. The name of the village Galutis & does not give us any help, as it is not known from elsewhere. However, I feel inclined to ascribe this pillar as well as that at Inginimitiya to Kassapo V., as we have several other inscriptions of his in which the terminology is almost exactly the same as in the two in question. Especially the end-Galutisce gamayme aṭṭáni paeraehaer dinamaha-is almost to the word the same as in the Mahakalattaewa inscription in Goldschmidt's Report. (Ind. Ant. vol. VI, p. 323).
The inscription of Mayilagastota belongs to Mahindo III. when he was pâ in Rohana during the reign of Sen a III., and it is related at Mahavamso liv, 5, that this king repaired the shrine of the tooth relic, and that he explained the suttanta at the great brazen palace surrounded by the priests of the three nikayas, i. e. of the Abhayagiri, Jetawana and Mahâvihâra fraternities.
The inscription at Mihintale, I also ascribed to Kass apo V., although there is no
[NOVEMBER, 1880.
other proof for this but the name of the king Siri Sang Bo. The contents of the inscription are very much like those of the long inscription of Mahindo III. on the two tablets at Mahintale, but the form of the character is somewhat older, so that it suits very well the time of Kassapo V. An explanation of all the words occurring in the inscriptions seems out of place here.
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Bartan Baatur, the grandfather of Chinghiz Khân, was styled Ebuken, a soubriquet applied by the Mongols to the grandfather or second ancestor of their chiefs.' It would seem that he did not actually reign, and either died before his brother Kutlugh, or was killed by the Taijut as one legend reports. Nor was he in fact entitled to reign, since his elder brother Ukin Berkhakh left descendants. His wife, according to Rashidu'd-din, was called Sunigel Fujin, Fujin being a Chinese title for 'princess.' She belonged to the Bargut tribe, Ssanang Setzen calls her Sain Maral Khayak. Sain Maral means the 'Good Hind.' By her Bartan had four sons-Mangetu Kian, the Ming-ko-tu-ha-yan of the Yuan-shi, Nikun Taishi, called Chi-hwan-ta-shi in the Yuan-shi, and Bukan Taishi by Aba'lghâzi, Yessugei Baatur, and Daritai Uchtgen called Ta-li-chan in the Yuan-shi. This is the order in which the names occur in the several authorities. Although all four had sons, Yessugei
Inscriptions of the 12th and 13th centuries are in great number at Polonnaruwa belonging to the kings Parakrama Bahu, Nissanka Malla and Saha samalla. Some of them have been published by Mr. T. W. Rhys Davids in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society; of others extracts have been given by Dr. Goldschmidt, as they are too long to be published in their whole extent. At Kantalai also I found a stone seat of Nissanka Malla, the contents of which are almost exactly the same as those of the stone seats of Kiriwehâra and Jetawanârâma at Polonnaruwa. Colombo, 10th November, 1879.
CHINGHIZ KHAN AND HIS ANCESTORS. BY HENRY H. HOWORTH, F.S.A. (Continued from p. 247.)
became the representative of the family, and succeeded Kutlugh not only as chief of the Mongols but as Kh â kan or Imperator, and we find him acting as Kutlugh's heir and supplying the funeral meats after his supposed death as we have related above, and this although Kutlugh left two sons, named Juchi Khân and Altan Khân. Yessugei was obeyed apparently by all the race, including the rival tribe of the Taijut. Of the latter we are told that on the death of Anbakhai a discussion arose about the succession. His sons and relations collected the chiefs of the tribe who met together to elect a successor. The discussion was prolonged, as none of them wished to have the position. They first approached Tuda Anbakhai's grandson, and the senior prince of the house, and asked him whom he thought worthy of the position. He suggested Terkutai Khiriltuk, who was also a grandson of Anbakhai, but he in turn suggested Metu-Gun-Sajan, who also declined saying -"How can I undertake to decide what should be done in such a weighty business. I feel
1 Abu'lghazi, p. 78.
