Note 1 — CHAP. VI.
Reading edition
: Mahawanso, ch. xxxiv.; Rajaratnacari, p. 52, 53.
2: FA HIAN. Foè Kouè Ki, ch. xxxviii. p. 335.
3: Rajavali, p. 227; Mahawanso, ch. xi. p. 67.
4: Rajaratnacari, p. 29, 49. Amongst the officers attached to the great establishments of the priests in Mihintala, A.D. 246, there are enumerated in an inscription engraven on a rock there, a secretary, a treasurer, a physician, a surgeon, a painter, twelve cooks, twelve thatchers, ten carpenters, six carters, and two florists.
5: Rajaratnacari, p. 103. The same book states that another king, in the fifteenth century, "offered no less than 6,480,320 sweet smelling flowers" at the shrine of the Tooth.—Ib., p. 136.