Note 1 — CHAP. IV.
Reading edition
: Mahawanso, ch. xv. p. 99.
2: Mahawanso, ch. xx. p. 123.
3: Five hundred were built by one king alone, the third in succession from Devenipiatissa, B.C. 246 (Mahawanso, ch. xxi, p. 127). About the same period the petty chiefs of Rohuna and Mahagam were equally zealous in their devout labours, the one having erected sixty-four wiharas in the east of the island, and the other sixty-eight in the south.—Mahawanso, ch. xxiv. p. 145, 148.