Note 1 — CHAP. X.
Reading edition
: LASSEN, Indis. Alt., vol. ii. p. 13-15.
2: COSMAS INDICO-PLEUSTES, EDRISI, ABOU-ZEYD, and almost all the travellers and geographers of the middle ages, have related, as a trait of the native rulers of Ceylon, their employment of annalists to record the history of the kingdom.—EDRISI, Clim. i. sec. 8, p. 3.