Note 1 — CHAP. III.
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: A.D. 405. Gibbon alludes with natural surprise to his discovery of the fact, that prior to the reign of Justinian, the "monarch of China had actually received an embassy from the Island of Ceylon."—Decline and Fall, c. xl.
2: Leang-shoo, A.D. 630, b. liv. p. 13. The ultimate fate of this renowned work of art is related in the Leang-shoo, and several other of the Chinese chronicles. Throughout the | Tsin and Sung dynasties it was preserved in the Wa-kwan monastery at Nankin, along with five other statues and three paintings which were esteemed chefs-d'oeuvre. The jade-stone image was at length destroyed in the time of Tung-hwan, of the Tse dynasty; first, the arm was broken off, and eventually the body taken to make hair-pins and armlets for the emperor's favourite consort Pwan. Nân-shè, b. lxxviii. p. 13. Tung-tëen, b. cxciii. p. 8. Tae-ping, &c., b. dcclxxxvii. p. 6.