Note 1 — CHAP. IX.
Reading edition
: Detoo Tissa, A.D. 330, Mahawanso, xxxvii. p. 242.
2: Budha Daasa, A.D. 339. Mahawanso, xxxvii, p. 243. His work on medicine, entitled Sara-sangraha or Sarat-tha-Sambo, is still extant, and native practitioners profess to consult it.—TURNOUR'S Epitome, p. 27.
3: Not KALIDAS, the author of Sacontala, to whom Sir W. Jones awards the title of "The Shakspeare of the East," but PANDITA KALIDAS, a Singhalese poet, none of whose verses have been preserved. His royal patron was Kumara Das, king of Ceylon, A.D. 513. For an account of Kalidas, see DE ALWIS'S Sidath Sangara, p. cliv.