[Footnote 33:  Mahavam.  XVIII.; Dipavam.  XV. and XVI.]

[Footnote 34:  But he says nothing about Mahinda or Sanghamitta and does not support the Mahavamsa in details.]

[Footnote 35:  Duttha, meaning bad, angry or violent, apparently refers to the ferocity shown in his struggle with the Tamils.]

[Footnote 36:  Dipavamsa XIX. 1.  Mahavamsa XXVII. 1-48.  See Fergusson, Hist.  Ind.  Architecture, 1910, pp. 238, 246.  I find it hard to picture such a building raised on pillars.  Perhaps it was something like the Sat-mahal-prasada at Pollanarua.]

[Footnote 37:  Parker, Ancient Ceylon, p. 282.  The restoration of the Ruwanweli Dagoba was undertaken by Buddhists in 1873.]

[Footnote 38:  Mahavamsa XXVIII.-XXXI.  Dutthagamani died before it was finished.]

[Footnote 39:  Mahavamsa XXIX. 37.  Yonanagaralasanda.  The town is also mentioned as situated on an Island in the Indus:  Mil.  Pan.  III. 7. 4.]

[Footnote 40:  According to the common reckoning B.C. 88-76:  according to Geiger B.C. 29-17.  It seems probable that in the early dates of Sinhalese history there is an error of about 62 years.  See Geiger, Trans.  Mahavamsa, pp.  XXX ff. and Fleet, J.R.A.S. 1909, pp. 323-356.]

[Footnote 41:  For the site see Parker’s Ancient Ceylon, pp. 299 ff.  The Mahavamsa (XXXIII. 79 and X. 98-100) says it was built on the site of an ancient Jain establishment and Kern thinks that this tradition hints at circumstances which account for the heretical and contentious spirit of the Abhaya monks.]

[Footnote 42:  Mahav.  XXXIII. 100-104.  See too the Tika quote by Turnour in his introduction, p. liii.]

[Footnote 43:  A work on ecclesiastical history written about 1395.  Ed. and Trans.  Colombo Record Office.]

[Footnote 44:  The probable error in Sinhalese dates mentioned in a previous note continues till the twelfth century A.D. though gradually decreasing.  For the early centuries of the Christian era it is probable that the accepted dates should be put half a century later]

[Footnote 45:  Mahavamsa XXXVI. 41.  Vetulyavadam madditva.  According to the Nikaya Sang, he burnt their Pitaka.]

[Footnote 46:  On Katha-vat.  XVIII. 1 and 2.  Printed in the Journal of the Pali Text Soc. for 1889.]

[Footnote 47:  Watters, II. 234.  Cf. Hsuan Chuang’s life, chap.  IV.]

[Footnote 48:  Mahavam.  XXXVI. iii. ff.  Gothabhaya’s date was probably 302-315 and Mahasena’s 325-352.  The common chronology makes Gothabhaya reign from 244 to 257 and Mahasena from 269 to 296 A.D.]

[Footnote 49:  Quoted by Turnour, Introd. p. liii.  The Mahavam.  V. 13, expressly states that the Dhammaruci and Sagaliya sects originated in Ceylon.]

[Footnote 50:  I.e. as I understand, the two divisions of the Sutta Vibhanga.]

[Footnote 51:  It was written up to date at various periods.  The chapters which take up the history after the death of Mahasena are said to be the work of Dhammakitti, who lived about 1250.]