[Footnote 85: It is reported with some emphasis as the tradition of the Ancients in Buddhaghosuppatti, chap. VII. If the works were merely those which Buddhaghosa himself had translated the procedure seems somewhat drastic.]
[Footnote 86: Mahâv. XXXIII. Dhammasokova so kasi Piṭakattaye Saṇgahan. Dhâtusena reigned from 459-477 according to the common chronology or 509-527 according to Geiger.]
[Footnote 89: Mahâv. XXXVIII. Akâsi patimâgehe bahumangalacetiye boddhisatte ca tathâsun. Cf. Fa-Hsien, chap. XXVIII. _ad fin._]
[Footnote 90: Or Parakkama Bâhu. Probably 1153-1186.]
[Footnote 92: Mahâvaṃsa LXXVIII. 21-27.]
[Footnote 93: Mahâv. 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: Râjasinha I (1581) is said to have made Śivaism the Court religion.]
[Footnote 98: His reign is dated as 1679-1701, also as 1687-1706. It is remarkable that the Mahâvaṃsa 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 envoyées de Siam à Ceylon au milieu du xviii Siècle. _Jour. Asiat_. 1906, pp. 533 ff. The king called Dhammika by the Mahâvaṃsa 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 Mahâvaṃsa made in 1796.]
[Footnote 100: Râmañña 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.]