Note 1 — CHAP. II.
Reading edition
: Mahawanso, ch. x. p. 59; ch, xiv. p. 78; ch. xxiii. p. 142. The hunting of the hare is mentioned 161 B.C. Mahawanso, ch. xxiii. p. 141.
2: Ibid., ch. x. p. 66.
3: Ibid., ch. xiv. p. 78. King Devenipiatissa, when descrying the elk which led him to the mountain where Mahindo was seated, exclaimed, "It is not fair to shoot him standing!" he twanged his bowstring and followed him as he fled, See ante, p. 341, n.
4: Ibid., ch. xxviii p. 166.
5: Ibid., ch. xxxiii. pp. 202, 204, &c.