Note 1 — CHAP. VIII.
Reading edition
: These rest-houses, like the Choultries of India, were constructed by private liberality along all the leading highways and forest roads. "Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging-place of wayfaring men."—Jer. ix. 2.
2: Rock inscription at Pollanarrua, A.D. 1187.
3: Rajaratnacari, p. 39; Mahawanso, ch. x. p. 67; HARDY'S Eastern Monachism, p. 485.
4: Mahawanso, ch. lxviii. UPHAM'S version, vol. i. p. 246.
5: Mahawanso, ch. xxxvii. p. 249.
6: Ibid., p. 244, 245.
7: Ibid., ch. xxiii. p. 139.
8: Ibid., ch. xxviii. p. 170; ch. xxxix. p. 214.