Note 1 — CHAP. VIII.
Reading edition
: Mahawanso, ch. xiv. p. 80; ch. xv. p. 84; Rajaratnacari p. 134.
2: Ibid., ch. xiii. p. 82.
3: Ibid., xxvii. p. 164.
4: Mahawanso, ch. xxx. p. 182; ch. xxxii. p. 192.
5: Asiatic Researches, vol. vi. p. 437. Chairs are shown on the sculptures of Persepolis; and it is probably a remnant of Grecian civilisation in Bactria that chairs are still used by the mountaineers of Balkh and Bokhara.
6: B.C. 307, King Devenipiatissa caused a chair to be so prepared for Mahindo.
7: Mahawanso, ch. xv. p. 84; ch. xxiii. p. 129. A four-post bed is mentioned B.C. 180. Mahawanso. ch. xxiv. p. 148.
8: Ibid., ch. xiv. p. 82.
9: Mahawanso, ch. xxvii. p. 163.
10: Ibid., ch. xxvii. p. 104.
11: Ibid., ch. xv. p. 85.
12: Rajaratnacari, p. 134.
13: Ibid., p. 103. This implement is identical with the "yoke" so often mentioned in the Old and New Testament as an emblem of bondage and labour; and figured, with the same significance; on Grecian sculpture gems. See ante. Vol. I. Pt. i ch iii. p. 114
14: ARISTOTLE, Rhet. i 7.