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... deep that they may last to the worlds end. No body can read them or make any thing of them. I have asked Malabars, Geniuses, as well as Chingulays and Moors, but none of them understood them. You walk over some of them. There is an antient Temple...

Epigraphia Zeylanica: Being Lithic and Other Inscriptions of Ceylon - Page i
edited by - 1912
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Ceylon: past and present

Sir George Barrow (2d bart.) - Sri Lanka - 1857 - 220 pages

...them. There is an ancient temple, Goddiladenni in Yattanour, stands by one place where there are some of these letters. They are probably in memorial of...of what we must leave to learned men to spend their conjectures.* " They have no clocks, hour-glasses, or sun-dials; but the King has a kind of instrument...

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