ROBERTS, Joseph. Rev. Missionary in Sri Lanka and India, author of “Extracts from the Sakaa Thewan Saasteran, or Book of Fate, tr. from the tamul language by the Rev. J.R.”, ch. 2 (of 68 p.) in Miscellaneous Translations from Oriental Languages 1. L. 1831. He was himself a Sri Lankan Tamil Christian and thus falls outside the scope of the present survey.