SINGHALESE CHIVALRY.—ELALA AND DUTUGAIMUNU.CHAP. VII.CHAP. VI.
THE INFLUENCES OP BUDDHISM ON CIVILISATION.
- The Mahawanse or Great Dynasty [360]
- The Suluwanse or Inferior Dynasty [360]
- Services rendered by the Great Dynasty [360]
- Frequent usurpations and the cause [361]
- Disputed successions [361]
- Rising influence of the priesthood [362]
- B.C. 104. Their first endowment with land [363]
- Rapid increase of the temple estates [364]
- Their possessions and their vow of poverty reconciled [364]
- Acquire the compulsory labour of temple-tenants [365]
- Impulse thus given to cultivation [365]
- And to the construction of enormous tanks [365]
- Tanks conferred on the temples [365]
- The great tank of Minery formed, A.D. 272 [365]
- Subserviency of the kings to the priesthood [366]
- Large possessions of the temples at the present day [366]
- Cultivation of flowers for the temples [367]
- Their singular profusion [367]
- Fruit trees planted by the Buddhist sovereigns [367]
- Edicts of Asoca [368]