Note 1 — CHAP. VIII.
Reading edition
: B.C. 307, Mahawanso, ch. xiv. p. 80, 81; B.C. 204, Ib., ch. xxi. p. 128. A carriage drawn by four horses is mentioned, B.C. 161, Mahawanso, ch. xxxi. p. 186.
2: B.C. 307, Mahawanso, ch, xv. p. 84; ch xvi. p. 103.
3: B.C. 161, "a merchant of Anarajapoora proceeded with carts to the Malaya division near Adam's Peak to buy ginger and saffon" (Mahawanso, ch. xxviii. p. 167); and in the 3rd century after Christ a wheel chariot was driven from the capital to the Kalaweva tank twenty miles N.W. of Dambool.—Mahawanso, ch. xxxviii. p. 260. See ante Vol. II. p. 445.
4: FORBES suggests that on such journeys the carriages must have been pushed by men, as horses could not possibly have drawn them in the hill country (vol. ii. p. 86).
5: Sigham, swift; dhawa, to run; Mahawanso, ch, xxiii. p. 142,186.
6: Mahawanso, ch. xxii. p. 132; ch. xxiii. 142.
7: The Prince Dutugaimunu, when securing the mare which afterwards carried him in the war against Elala, "seized her by the throat and boring her nostril with the point of his sword, secured her with his rope."—Mahawanso, ch. x. p. 60.
8: Marco Polo, ch. xx, s. ii,: ch. xl.