Note 1 — CHAP. VII.
Reading edition
: Rajavali, pp. 217, 219. At the present day, there are four or five varieties of drums in use:—the tom-tom or tam-a-tom, properly so-called, which consists of two cylinders placed side by side, and is beaten with two sticks;—the daelle, a single cylinder struck with a stick at one end, and with the hand at the other,—the oudaelle, which is held in the left hand, and struck with the right;—and the berri, which is suspended from the beater's neck, and struck with both hands, one at each end, precisely as a similar instrument is shown in some of the Egyptian monuments.
2: Mahawanso, ch. xvii, p. 104.
3: B.C. 161. Mahawanso, ch. xxv, p. 154.
4: B.C. 20. Rajavali, p. 51.
5: Mahawanso, ch. xxv. p. 157.
6: Mahawanso, ch. xxvi. 186.
7: Mahawanso, ch. xxx. p. 180. The following passage in UPHAM'S translation of the Mahawanso, ch. lxxii. vol. i. p. 274, would convey the idea that the Æolian harp was meant, or some arrangement of strings calculated to elicit similar sounds:—"The king Prakrama built a palace at the city of Pollanarrua; and the stone works were carved in the shape of flowers and creeping plants, with golden networks which gave harmonious sounds as if they were moved by the air."
8: JOINVILLE, Asiat. Researches, vol. vii. p. 488.