Note 1 — CHAP. IX.
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: I am indebted to the family of the late Mr. Turnour for access to a manuscript translation of a further portion of the Mahawanso, from which this continuation of the narrative is extracted.
2: A lay devotee who takes on himself the obligation of asceticism without putting on the yellow robe.
3: The dathanga or "teles-dathanga" are the thirteen ordinances by which the cleaving to existence is destroyed, involving piety, abstinence, and self-mortification.—HARDY'S Eastern Monachism, ch. ii. p. 9.