Note 479 — Chapter V · LUNAR SUPERSTITIONS AND FESTIVALS
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Mahony, in Asiatic Researches, 1803, vii, 40 sq.; Edward Upham, Sacred and Historical Books of Ceylon, London, 1833, iii, 161 sqq.; R. S. Hardy, Eastern Monachism, London, 1850, pp. 236 sqq.; idem, Manual of Buddhism,² London, 1880, pp. 22, 50, 52; C. F. Köppen, Die Religion des Buddha und ihre Entstehung, Berlin, 1857-1859, i, 563 sq.; D. J. Gogerly, “The Laws of the Buddhist Priesthood,” Journal of the Ceylon Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1858-1859, iii, 253-261. By the Kandian, who occupy the interior of Ceylon, not only the poya days, but all unlucky days (vitti) as well, are observed with abstinence from agricultural labour (P. Kehelpannala, in Journal of the Anthropological Institute, 1896, xxv, 108).