Note 1 — CHAP. IV.
Reading edition
: FERGUSON'S Handbook of Architecture, b. i. c. iii. p. 43.
2: Mahawanso, ch. xvii. The Rajavali calls it the jaw-bone, p. 184.
3: The Abhayagiri dagoba at Anarajapoora, built B.C. 89, was originally 180 cubits high, which, taking the Ceylon cubit at 2 feet 3 inches, would be equal to 405 feet. The dome was hemispherical, and described with a radius of 180 feet, giving a circumference of 1130 feet. The summit of this stupendous work was therefore fifty feet higher than St. Paul's, and fifty feet lower than St. Peter's.