Note 1 — CHAP. III.
Reading edition
: Wan-hëen tung-kaou, b. cccxxxviii. p. 24.
2: The Yakkhos and Nagas ("devils" and "serpents") of the Mahawanso.
3: Foĕ-Kouĕ Ki, ch. xxxviii. p. 333. Transl. RÉMUSAT. This account of Ceylon is repeated almost verbatim in the Tung-tëen, and in numerous other Chinese works, with the addition that the newly-formed kingdom of Sinhala, "Sze-tseu-kwŏ," took its name from the "skill of the natives in training lions."—B. cxciii. pp. 8, 9; Tae-ping, b. dccxciii. p. 9; Sin-Tang-shoo, b. cxlvi. part ii. p. 10. A very accurate translation of the passage as it is given by MA-TOUAN-LIN is published by M. Stanislas Julien in the Journ. Asiat. for July, 1836, tom. xxix. p. 36.