Note 1 — CHAP. VII.
Reading edition
: This fact is curious, seeing that at the present day the cultivation of music belongs to one of the lowest castes in Ceylon.
2: Mahawanso, ch. lxiv.; UPHAM'S version, p. 256. An ingenious paper on Singhalese Music, by Mr. Louis Nell, is printed in the Journ. of the Ceylon branch of the Roy. Asiat. Soc. for 1856-8; p. 200.