Page:A Catalogue of Sanskrit Manuscripts in the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge (1869).djvu/97

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86 CATALOGUE OF KANTTSCRIFTS. Begins : ^iti^ TTOT fM'T^^ V8RIMK Wit^ ^^^•••fi ^wg^ ^i«jjm wtHif^BTwr n $ n The MS. has the peculiarity of all Cambodian Pali MSS. that have fallen under my notice, viz., great beauty of execution at the expense of correctness. It breaks off at the end of the first Yagga of the Fpamapaiiha. R. IS. 151. 20 palm-leaves, 20 inches by 2| ; Singhalese character of the second half of last century ; 9 lines in a page. Sattanagallamhdravamsa, history of the temple of Attanagalu in Ceylon, from the time of Sri Sanghabodhi (a.d. 234) down to Parakkama III. (1266-1301), in whose reign the book was probably written. It was translated into Singha- ^ Various readings found in Mr. Trenckner's MSS. : v. 1, a, sAgdl&ffam; b, upagaiichhi ; v. 2, a, chitrakathim; b, apuchehhi a.nd puthu; y. 3, a, gambhU ratthHk; h, abbhuta ; y. i, a, abhidhammavinayogA^ha auttajdlaaamatthitd ; b, opamehi nayehi cha ; y. 5, a, taitha ; b, sunotha ; y. 6, kankhdthdnaviddlane.