Note 1 — CHAP. II
Reading edition
: Journ. Asiat. vol. xlix. p. 206; ELPHINSTONE's India, b. iii. ch. x. p. 168; REINAUD, Mémoires sur l'Inde, p. 39; Introd. ABOULFEDA, p. cccxc. Baron Walckenaer has ascertained, from the puranas and other Hindu sources, that the Great Dynasty of the Maharaja continued till A.D. 628, after which the islands were sub-divided into numerous sovereignties. See MAJOR's Introduction to the Indian Voyages in the Fifteenth Century, in the Hakluyt Soc. Publ. p. xxvii.
2: MASSOUDI relates the conquest of the kingdom of Comar by the Maharaja of Zabedj, nearly in the same words as it is told by Abou-zeyd; GILDEMEISTER, Script. Arab., pp. 145, 146. REINAUD. Memoires sur l'Inde, p. 225.