[Footnote 87:  Mahav.  XLII. 35 ff.]

[Footnote 88:  Mahav.  LXXVIII. 21-23.]

[Footnote 89:  Mahav.  XXXVIII.  Akasi patimagehe bahumangalacetiye boddhisatte ca tathasun.  Cf.  Fa-Hsien, chap.  XXVIII. ad fin.]

[Footnote 90:  Or Parakkama Bahu.  Probably 1153-1186.]

[Footnote 91:  Mahavamsa LX. 4-7.]

[Footnote 92:  Mahavamsa LXXVIII. 21-27.]

[Footnote 93:  Mahav.  LXXXIV.  If this means the region of Madras, the obvious question is what learned Buddhist can there have been there at this period.]

[Footnote 94:  J.  Ant. 1893, pp. 40, 41.]

[Footnote 95:  I take this statement from Tennent who gives references.]

[Footnote 96:  See Ceylon Antiquary, I. 3, pp. 148, 197.]

[Footnote 97:  Rajasinha I (1581) is said to have made Sivaism the Court religion.]

[Footnote 98:  His reign is dated as 1679-1701, also as 1687-1706.  It is remarkable that the Mahavamsa makes both the kings called Vimala Dharma send religious embassies to Arakan.  See XCIV. 15, 16 and XCVII. 10, 11.]

[Footnote 99:  See for some details Lorgeou:  Notice sur un Manuscrit Siamois contenant la relation de deux missions religieuses envoyees de Siam a Ceylon au milieu du xviii Siecle. Jour.  Asiat. 1906, pp. 533 ff.  The king called Dhammika by the Mahavamsa appears to have been known as Phra Song Tham in Siam.  The interest felt by the Siamese in Ceylon at this period is shown by the Siamese translation of the Mahavamsa made in 1796.]

[Footnote 100:  Ramanna is the part of Burma between Arakan and Siam.]

[Footnote 101:  See Spence Hardy, Manual of Buddhism, chap.  VII.]

[Footnote 102:  A translation by S.Z.  Aung and Mrs. Rhys Davids has been published by the Pali Text Society.  The author Anuruddha appears to have lived between the eighth and twelfth centuries.]

[Footnote 103:  The Sinhalese had a special respect for the Abhidhamma.  Kassapa V (c. A.D. 930) caused it to be engraved on plates of gold. Ep.  Zeyl. I. p. 52.]

[Footnote 104:  See Coomaraswamy in J.R.A.S. 1909, pp. 283-297.]

[Footnote 105:  For intercourse with Camboja see Epigr.  Zeylanica, II. p. 74.]

[Footnote 106:  A dubious legend relates that they were known in the north and suppressed by Harsha.  See Ettinghausen, Harsha Vardhana, 1906, p. 86.  Nil Sadhana appears to be a name for tantric practices.  See Avalon, Principles of Tantra, preface, p. xix.]

[Footnote 107:  In the reigns of Voharatissa, Gothabhaya, Mahasena and Ambaherana Salamevan.  The kings Matvalasen and Mungayinsen are also known as Sena I and II.]

[Footnote 108:  Secret Vinaya.]

[Footnote 109:  Epigraphia Zeylan.  I. p. 4.]

[Footnote 110:  One of the king’s inscriptions says that he reconciled the clergy of the three Nikayas. Ep.  Zeyl.  I. p. 134.]