Note 1 — CHAP. II.
Reading edition
: For an account of the medicinal influence of betel-chewing, see Part I. c. iii. § ii. p. 112.
2: ROYLE'S Essay on the Antiquity of Hindoo Medicine, p. 85.
3: B. C. 504. Mahawanso, ch. ix. p. 57. Dutugaimunu, when building the Ruanwellé dagoba, provided for the labourers amongst other articles "the five condiments used in mastication." This probably refers to the chewing of betel and its accompaniments (Mahawanso, ch. xxx. p. 175). A story is told of the wife of a Singhalese minister, about A. D. 56, who to warn him of a conspiracy, sent him his "betel, &c., for mastication, omitting the chunam," hoping that coming in search of it, he might escape his "impending fate." Mahawanso, ch. xxxv. p. 219.
4: Rajavali, p. 221.