Note 1 — CHAP. VI.
Reading edition
: See Vol. I. Part IV. chap. ii. p. 430.
2: King Pandukábhaya, B.C. 437, "built a residence for the Brahman Jótiyo, the chief engineer."—Mahawanso, ch. x. p. 66.
3: Mahawanso, ch. xxiii. p. 144.
4: The only instance of mechanism applied in aid of human labour is referred to in a passage of the Mahawanso, which alludes to a decree for "raising the water of the Abhaya tank by means of machinery," in order to pour it over a dagoba during the solemnisation of a festival, B.C. 20.—Mahawanso, ch. xxxiv. p. 211; Rajaratnacari, p. 51.
5: No document is better calculated to Impress the reader with a due appreciation of the indomitable perseverance of the Singhalese in works of engineering than the able report of Messrs. ADAMS, CHURCHILL, and BAILEY, on the great Canal from Ellahara to Gantalawa, appended to the Ceylon Calendar for 1857.