Note 1 — CHAP. VI.
Reading edition
: TURNOUR'S Epitome and Notes, p. 72. Major Forbes says, however, there is reason to believe that the remains of stone piers across the Kalawa-oya, on the line between Kornegalle and Anarajapoora, are the ruins of the bridge erected by King Maha Sen, A.D. 301.
2: Mahawanso, ch. lxxxv. UPHAM'S translation, pp. 340,349; Rajaratnacari, pp. 104, 131. The bridge on the Wanny hereafter described (see vol. ii p. 474) was thus constructed.
3: Herodotus, i. 186.
4: Mahawanso, ch. xxiii. pp. 136, 138, ch. xxv. p. 150; Rajaratnacari, p. 112.