Note 1 — CHAP. II.
Reading edition
: Sometimes spelled Wejaya. TURNOUR has demonstrated that the alleged concurrence of the death of Buddha and the landing of Wijayo is a device of the sacred annalists, in order to give a pious interest to the latter event, which took place about sixty years later.—Introd Mahawanso, p. liii.
2: To facilitate reference to the ancient divisions of India, a small map is subjoined, chiefly taken from Lassen's Indische Alterthumskunde.
MAP OF ANCIENT INDIA.
3: BURNOUF conjectures that the point from which Wijayo set sail for Ceylon was the Godavery, where the name of Bandar-maha-lanka (the Port of the Great Lanka), still commemorates the event.—Journ. Asiat. vol. xviii. p. 134. DE COUTO, recording the Singhalese tradition as collected by the Portuguese, he landed at Preaturé (Pereatorre), between Trincomalie and Jaffna-patam, and that the first city founded by him was Mantotte.—Decade v. l. 1. c. 5.
4: See a note at the end of this chapter, on the landing of Wijayo in Ceylon, as described in the Mahawanso.