Note 491 — Chapter III
Evelyn Abbott translation
The date follows from the fact that the settlers who are said to have landed in Ceylon in 543 B.C. according to the era of the Singhalese, find the kingdom of the Pandus and the city of Mathura in existence. Lassen, loc. cit. 22, 23 ff; 99 ff; cp. infr. p. 372.