the
names of the texts on which his preaching was based. It is doubtless
meant that he recited the Sutta with a running exposition.]

[Footnote 30: Mahavam. xx. 17.]

[Footnote 31: Many other places claimed to possess this relic.]

[Footnote 32: Of course the antiquity of the Sinhalese Bo-tree is a
different question from the identity of the parent tree with the tree
under which the Buddha sat.]

[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 N