Sōma, 510; spear, 500, 538;
square, 657; swastika, 490, 507;
sun, 501, 503, 507, 511, 512, 518;
tank, 514, 657; taurine, 511; tree,
506, 512; triangle, 506, 517; tri-
dent, 499, 519; trisūla, 506, 517;
turtle, 514; vase, 490, 506. Ex-
planation, 518; demon-scarers or
luck-bringing, 519; inserted by
traders, 520; not Buddhist, 519
Talagalla tank, 258
Talā warigē, a Vaedda clan, 113
Tamara-gala, cup-hole, 232
Tambapaņņi Magama, 24, 235,
241; Ceylon, 235
Tanjore carvings, 5, 115, 148, 501
Tanks, on coins, 514; see reservoirs
Tantirimalei bricks, 219; monastery,
244; statues, 245, 545
Tattu keliya, 627
Taurine symbol on coins, 511, 517
Tāyam Sōņālu game, 617
Tēkkam dam, 247; age, 249
Tennent, Sir J. E., on Mahiyangana
dāgaba, 316; on settlement of
Vaeddas in villages, 112
Tools, ancient. Adze, 555; axe, 554 ;
bellows, 559; bill-hook, 552; chisel,
556, 557; drill, fire, 558, 655; drills,
558; hammers, 557; hoe, 555;
jumper, 556; knife, 551; lathe,
559; pickaxe, 556; pick-hammer,
556; saw, 557; sickle, 554; trowel,
556
Topographical errors, 260, 425
Topography of Anuradhapura, 270
Torches scare demons, 635
Trade, early, 236; proof of some
civilisation, 108
Tree on coins, 506, 512
Triangle on coins, 506; 517
Transliteration, 420
Trident, 538; on coins, 499, 500, 519
Trident, double, on coins, 506
Trikūta, Mt., 5, 9
Trisula, 428, 505, 517; double, 501
Trowel, 556
Tug of war ceremony, 634, 637, 638
Tumbullē Waehaera-gala, cup-holes,
231; inscription, 231
Turtle, forbidden food, 195; incar-
nation of Vishnu, 195, 196; on
coins, 514
Twig or leaf clothing, 39, 70
Tēvāndān Puliyan-kulam hill, 418; Twig offerings, 76, 174, 175
inscriptions, 428 ff.
Theobald, W., on symbols on coins,
Throne, royal, 496
Thūpārāma dāgaba, 263 ff.; bricks,
217; history, 265, 266; damaged,
265, 266; inscription, 322; pillars
round, 267, 268; platform wall,
264; possibly roofed, 464, 470;
relics, 263; site and shape, 263,
272; restoration, 266
Thūpāvansa, 11; account of arrival
of Bō-tree, 273
Thurston, E., on fire-making, 57
Tikā, commentary, 10
Time-reckoning absent, 84;
mark of savage state, 109
Tissa, K., 24, 245
Tissa-waewa, 364, 365
Tissa-waewa, S., age, 386, 388;
restoration, 390; Kirindi-oya dam,
390; result of restoration, 394
Titthārāma, 300, 301
Titthawaela inscription, 442
Tiyāgasāla, son of Gaja-Bāhu, 455
Tōmara, javelin, 547
Abandonment of cave and
forest life, 31, 98, 112; abandon-
ment of hamlets, 50; activity, 41 ;
advent, 21, 22; amusements, 81,
83, 93; appliances sufficient, 109;
arrows, 61; attacks by bears, 69;
at Anuradhapura, 19, 25, 97, 301;
axe, 59, 66, 67, 73; bark bag, 54;
book by Vaedda, 99; bathing, 68;
blood feuds, 82; buffaloes, use of,
90, 92; bows, 59, 60; cannibalism
absent, 20; caste, high, 96, 102;
census, 38; character, 80-82;
chewing leaves, 53; civilised by
irrigation works, 84; clans, 113;
classes, 36; conclusion adopted,
III; conversation, loud, 81; cloth-
ing, 38-40, 105; cranium, 43; cult
of dead, 120, 146, 153, 167; deities,
133 ff.; deities are Yakās, 134;
demons, belief in, 42, 97, 152, 167;
description, 40-44, 46; dialect, 20,
123; distinct from Tamils, 34;
districts inhabited, 33, 36, 102,
205; domestic animals, 90; dwel-
lings, 31, 32, 48, 49; etiquette, 82;
evidence of former civilisation,
103; exogeny, 116; failure of
missions, 83; fire-making, 56;
fish-hook not used, 52; fishing, 21,
51, 68; folk-stories, 88, 93; food,
50-53; food prohibitions, 21, 51,
190, 191; forests apportioned, 74;
forest Vaeddas, 38; funerals, 119,
120; Galē Yakā, hill-god, cult of,
20, 33, 134, 178, 183, 186, 187;
Gangē Baṇḍāra, 139, 163; gestures,
89; golden utensils, 54, 106; guar-
dians of Kataragama temple, 103,
114; hair, 43-44, 47; height, 41;
home, original, 20, 34; hunting,
68 ff., 75, 76; illnesses, 82; imita-
tion of animal cries, 90; intelli-
gence, 79, 80; Kannimär, deities,
133, 151, 167; kings, early, 25,
99, 105; Kiri Ammā, goddess, 135-
137, 147, 162-165, 188, 189, 206;
Kiri Ammās, seven, 137, 150, 165,
166; knives not carried, 59; know-
ledge of Sinhalese, 96; Knox,
Capt. R., on Vaeddas, 95; lan-
guage lost, 32; leaf clothing, 70;
marriage, 23, 116-118; measure of
length, 86; meat drying over fire,
50; meat preserved in honey, 72;
memory, 95; millet cake, 52;
millet growing, 50; mixed blood,
32, 33, 97; Mōhini worship, 96;
136, 137, 147, 149, 150, 156, 206;
monkeys generally eaten, 51;
names, 121; night shooting, 77;
numbers, knowledge of, 85-88, 106;
their opinion of Sinhalese, 98;
ornaments, 47; observant nature,
70, 71, 79; political organisation,
104; pottery making and weaving
unknown, 54; pronouns lost, 87;
rank, former high, 98, 99, 101;
religion, original, 155; religious
ceremonies, 162 ff.; represented by
Kandian Sinhalese, 30; rice eaten,
53; Sea god, 138, 155; settled for-
merly in villages, 25, 31, 100, 112;
shrine, stick, 162; skin, colour of,
40; skull, dolichocephalic and
small, 43; social customs, 16, 116;
soldiers, 29, 100, 101, 549; spear,
18; starvation, 75; terms for, 20,
37, 205; time reckoning unknown,
84, 87; titles, 99-100; use of money
and guns, 68, 82; utensils, house-
hold, 53-56; vocabulary, 123;
water-drinking, 53; water-vessels,
54; weapons and tools, 59; Wija-
pāla, prince, Chiefs under, 101, 102
Vaedi Kaḍawaras, 141, 152
Vaedi Yakās, 141, 143, 145
Vajira, general, 265
Valāhassa Jātaka on Yakkhas, 18, 21
Sinhalese,
Valve-pit invented by
377 ff., 379
Valliyammā, story of, 114; a Kiri
Ammă, 667
Vannakanņa channel, 409
Vase on coins, 493, 506
Vavuņik-kuļam
Pēliväpi, 256; age,
365; proof of Drăvidian settlement,
367; size, 366
Vedic definition of wealth, 467
Vedik-kināri hill, inscriptions, 397,
431
Vessels, early Indian, 18, 23, 106
Vibhisana, Rākshasa, K. of Ceylon,
7; guardian of W. Ceylon, 668
Vidhura Pandita, 140
Village tanks, 350, 406
Visvakarman, built two cities, 5, 354
Virchow, Prof. R., on Vaeddas;
affinities, 20, 21, 33, 34; lowest
savages, 103; loss of language, 33,
34; skulls, 43
Virabhadra, fire-walking ceremony,
Viramuṇḍā Deviyā, fire-walking cere-
mony, 141
Vishnu, 147, 149, 156 ff.; defeated
Rakshasas, 6; guardian of W.
Ceylon, 668; Mohini incarna-
tion, 136; Rāma incarnation, 6;
Turtle incarnation, 195; moun-
tain god, 136; protected Wijaya, 23
Visits of Gōtama Buddha, 12, 301,
425; orders to Nāgas, 310; orders
to Sakka, 668
50; fish-hook not used, 52; forest
deities, 167 ff., 172; forests appor-
tioned, 74; Hat Rajjuruwō, cult of,
76, 158, 172; hunting, 68, 71, 75,
77; hunting ceremony, 167 ff.; idea
of locality, 77; imitation of animal
cries, 90; impossible to be lost, 78;
leaf or twig clothing, 70; millet
cake, 52, 75; monkeys not eaten,
51; mungus, story of, 80; names,
37; not potters or weavers, 54;
numbers, 36; royal bee-hive tak-
ing, 170; twig offerings, 76, 174
War of short-horned buffalo, 102, 143
Wasabha, K., grant of tank, 366;
married aunt, 422
Wața Yakā, 145
Waterfield, S., found dāgaba, 293
Võharaka-Tissa, K., 280, 294, 305, Waṭṭa Gāmiņi, K., 298, 300, 304, 403,
Voyages, early, from India to Ceylon,
106-108
Vyādha Dēva at Anuradhapura, 19,
26
Vyādhas were Vaeddas, 19, 20, 37, 205
Wagas, a Tamil race, 45, 46; mode of
life, 46; names, 46
Wāhalkaḍas, 289, 295, 307; cost, 280;
purpose, 289
Walak-pussa game, 597
Wala-salli game, 626
Walker, N. M., discovered inscrip-
tion, 249
Wallace, Dr. A. R., on fire-making,
158
Wanagatta Yakā, 142, 146
Wanni Deviyā, 142, 150, 158, 159,
206; birthplace, 159; emblem and
vāhana, 159; legend, 159; pos-
sibly a Vaedda chief, 160
Wanni Kadayin Pota, manuscript,
site of Siriwaḍdhana Nuwara,
259; Vaeddas, 99-101; written by
Vaedda, 99
Wanniya Baṇḍāra, forest deity of
Wanniyas, 142, 150, 158, 159, 168,
169, 172, 206
Wanniyas. Are Vaeddas, 37, 106;
arrows, 61; bow, 59, 60; Buddhists,
133; caste, good, 37; deities, 158;
description, 47; district, 36; do-
mestic animals, 90, 92; dwellings,
49, 50, 92; fire-making, 56; food,
445, 450; arms, 524; built Abhaya-
giri dagaba and wihāra, 298, 304;
built Manisōma dāgaba, 311
Wax, aroma of ancient, 335
Weapons, ancient. Armour, 524:
arrow, 525, 540; baendiwāla, 546;
battle-axe, 523, 526, 542, 549:
bident, 539, 546; bill-hook, 526,
547; bow, 523, 539, 548; club, 524,
543; cross-bow, 525; dagger, 526,
531; engines, stone-throwing, 525;
helmet, 545; itiya, 526, 532;
javelin, 523, 534; kastānē, 531,
544; ketĕriya, 542, 549; knife,
526, 531; kris, 526, 532; mace,
543; marteau, 546; quiver, 541;
scabbard, 531, 544; shield, 523,
543, 548; spear, 523, 534, 549;
stone-bow, 541; sword, 523, 526,
548; tōmara, 547; trident, 526,
528
Wijesinhe, C., translated Mahâvansa,
Wijitapura, 217, 219, 242, capture,
238, founded by Parakrama Bahu
1, 238; site, 239
Wijitapura wihāra, 237
Winslow's dictionary, on game, 619;
on length of span, 318
Wood Martin, Col. W. G., on Nerenchi
diagram, $79
notification of status, 153, number
in Ceylon, 521
Yak giri dûwa, 13
Yakkhas-Yakshas, attendants on
Kuvēra, 6; cannibals, 18; district,
12, 16, 19; form army of Mära, 28,
guards, 28, 269; in Jätaka story,
18; in S. India, 11, 20; on Ritigala,
11; 28 chiefs, 27-28
Yantragala,
stone receptacle for
valuables, 298, 618
Women, no seclusion of, 422, 423 Yapawu Bandara, deified chief, 200
Word game, 600
Yatapila, party of Pattini, 637
Worship of Kiri Ammas a mark of Yatthala dågaba, age, 327; articles
civilisation, 151
Yahana, altar, 173, 200
Yaka, any male deity of Vaeddas,
114, any evil spirit, 42, 1 49 ff, 143.
144, 145, 146, causes and cures
sickness, 139, 152, 613, mode of
obtaining food, 153, of house, pro-
tective, 152, opinion of monks, 152,
from relic-chamber, 327, 460, in-
scribed bricks, 327
Yatthala Tissa, K, 327, 440; built
Kaelaniya dagaba, 316; married
Yodakandiva tank, 188, 194, size, 195
Yola-waewa➡ Důratissa tank, 390,
191; water supply, 194
Yöjana, length in Ceylon, 255
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