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 CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS. 87 lese in the reign of Bhuvanekab&hu, in the year 1382. An English translation, by Mr. J. d'Alwis, was printed at Colombo in 1866, with valuable explanatory notes and an introduction. The MS. contains the whole of the Singhalese version, in eleven chapters, in which, however, but few of the Pali verses, with their Singhalese translation, are interspersed. After the opening passage in Singhalese (translated by d'Alwis, p. clxxvi) these verses follow : The next Pali text that we come upon is verse 5 : TAMIL MANUSCRIPT. R. IS. 152. 30 palm-leaves, 14 inches by 2 ; 7 to 9 lines in a page ; Tamil running hand. Date about the beginning of the present century. A Christian Catechism, in twelve sections (pirivu). From the bad spelling throughout it appears that the copy was written down from dictation by one of Mr. Mead's cate- chists, whose name is inscribed in it.