Note 1 — CHAP V.
Reading edition
: The term "Malabar" is used throughout the following pages in the comprehensive sense in which it is applied in the Singhalese chronicles to the continental invaders of Ceylon; but it must be observed that the adventurers in these expeditions, who are styled in the Mahawanso, "damilos" or Tamils, came not only from the south-western tract of the Dekkan, known in modern geography as "Malabar," but also from all parts of the peninsula, as far north as Cuttack and Orissa.
2: Mahawanso, ch. xxi. p. 127.
3: Mahawanso, xxi.; Rajaratnacari, ch. ii.
4: Chola, or Solee, was the ancient name of Tanjore, and the country traversed by the river Caveri.