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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 March 2011
On presenting to the Society the accompanying plan of some of the ruins of Anurádhapura, in the island of Ceylon, made by Major Skinner, the Surveyor-general of the island, to whose kindness I am indebted for it, I avail myself of the assistance of my friend Captain Gascoyne, to add to the observations which are contained in a former paper, entitled, “Some remarks upon the ancient city of Anurádhapura, and the Hill Temple of Mehentélé, in the island of Ceylon,” which the Society did me the honour to insert in the third volume of its Transactions.
page 164 note 1 Since the publication of that paper the orthography has been fixed as Anurádhapura, which I have consequently adopted.
page 164 note 2 This synchronical date is taken from the revised chronological table of the sovereigns of Ceylon, in Turnour's Maháwanso; Appendix, p. lx, and is supported by many coincidences.
page 166 note 1 I had not time during my visit, to make these measurements myself, and there is considerable difference from those given by others, but I have given a mean, derived, however, from independent though not very precise data.
page 166 note 2 In my former memoir, the tree is erroneously said to have come from Siam.
page 167 note 1 See Transactions of the Royal Asiatic Society, vol. iii. p. 467.Google Scholar
page 167 note 2 Turnour's, Maháwanso, Introduction, p. xxxii.Google Scholar
page 167 note 3 Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland, vol. vi. p. 434.Google Scholar
page 167 note 4 Maháwanso, , p. 7.Google Scholar
page 167 note 5 Maháwanso, , p. 125.Google Scholar
page 168 note 1 This form exists on the tombs of the kings and queens of Kandy. See plate 21, vol. iii., Transactions of the Royal Asiatic Society.
page 168 note 2 Supplemental Glossary, N.W. Provinces, by Elliot; word “Chourasse.”
page 168 note 3 See Fergusson's Rock-cut Temples, Vihára, No. 16; and Transactions of the Royal Asiatic Society, vol. ii. plate 1.Google Scholar
page 169 note 1 Chapter xxvii. to xxxiii.
page 169 note 2 When at Anurádhapura, a work said to contain the details of the building of Ruanwelli Sai, was procured for me by the Modeliar. On my return to England it was presented to the Society, in whose possession I presume it remains.
page 169 note 3 Pages 203—5.
page 171 note 1 In the engraving of this slab in my former paper, the figures are erroneously all placed facing to the right.
page 171 note 2 Upham's, Translation, p. 143.Google Scholar
page 172 note 1 See Plate 20, Transactions, Vol. iii.
page 172 note 2 Rajavali, , Upham's Translation, p. 209.Google Scholar
page 172 note 3 Turnour's, Maháwanso, 125.Google Scholar
page 174 note 1 Davy's, Ceylon, p. 225, note (condensed).Google Scholar
page 174 note 2 There are only four things stated.
page 175 note 1 Raja Ratnacari—Upham, pp. 45–6–7–8 (condensed).
page 175 note 2 Turnour's Maháuvanso, Appendix, lx, Chronological Table of Sovereigns of Ceylon.