Note 1 — CHAP. III.
Reading edition
: Hiouen-Thsang, b. iv. p. 194. Transl. M.S. Julien.
2: This, M. Stanislas Julien says, should be "the kingdom of the lion," in allusion to the mythical ancestry of Wijayo.—Journ. Asiat, tom. xxix. p. 37. And in a note to the tenth book of HIOUEN-THSANG'S Voyages des Pélerins Bouddhistes, vol. ii. p. 124, he says one name for Ceylon in Chinese is "Tchi-sse-tseu" "(le royaume de celui qui) a pris un lion."
3: Suy-shoo, b. lxxx. p. 3. In the Se-yĭh-ké foo-choo, or "Descriptions of Western Countries," Ceylon is called Woo-yew-kw[(o], "the sorrowless kingdom."
4: Mahawanso, ch. vii. p. 50.
5: Se-yĭh-ké foo-choo, quoted in the Haè-kwŏ-too che, or "Foreign Geography," l. xviii. p. 15; HIOUEN-THSANG; Voyages des Péler. Boudd. lib. xi. vol. ii. p. 125; 130 n.