Note 1 — CHAP. IV.
Reading edition
: Mahawanso, ch. xxxvii. p.245.
2: By the ordinances of Buddhism it was forbidden to the priesthood "to adorn the body with flowers," thus showing it to have been a practice of the laity. HARDY'S Eastern Monachism, ch. iv. p.24; ch. xiii p.128.
3: Mahawanso, ch. xxiii. p.139.
4: Ibid., ch. xxxviii. p.258.