Note 1 — CHAP. III
Reading edition
: B.C. 204, a visitor to Anarajapoora is described as "purchasing aromatic drugs from the bazaars, and departing by the Northern Gate" (Mahawanso, ch. xxiii. p. 139); and A.D. 8, the King Maha Dathika "ranged shops on each side of the streets of the capital."—Mahawanso, ch. xxxiv. p. 213.
2: B.C. 170. Mahawanso ch. xxii. p. 138.