Note 1 — CHAP. III
Reading edition
: B.C. 504.
2: Mahawanso, ch. vii. p. 51, ix. p. 57; Rajavali, part i. p. 177, 186; and TURNOUR'S Epitome, p. 12, 14.
3: The district of Rohuna included the mountain zone of Ceylon, and hence probably its name, rohuno meaning the "act or instrument of ascending, as steps or a ladder." Adam's Peak was in the Maya division; but Edrisi, who wrote in the twelfth century, says, that it was then called "El Rahoun."—Géographie, &c. viii, JAUBERT'S Transl. vol. ii. p. 71. Rahu is an ordinary name for it amongst Mahometan writers, and in the Raja Tarangini, it is called "Rohanam," b. iii. 56, 72.