[31] Coomaraswarmy, Mediæval Sinhalese Art.
[32] Hindu Theatre.
[33] In the painting supposed to represent an Irânian Embassy of Khosru II. of Persia to Pulikêsi II., both flag-fan, long-handled pankhâ, and fly-flap appear.
[34] The Tooth relic of Buddha, brought by a Brahman princess from Kālinga in A.D. 313, and since rendered the highest honours.
[35] Anderson, B.M. Catalogue, p. 221.
[36] In the romance of Amadis of Gaul it will be remembered that Appolidon gathered up the superb purple and gold feathers of the Phœnix which had remained long enough in the island to change its plumage, to make a fan ornamented with a diamond and carbuncle, as a present from Amadis to Oriane on arriving at the island.
[37] M. Rondot quotes a passage from a native authority stating that the Chinese general, Tchou-ko-liang, commanded his three army corps holding a fan of white plumes.
[38] G. Dumoutier, Les Symboles, les Emblèmes et les Accessoires du culte chez les Annamites, pp. 116-18.
[39] H. A. Giles, Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio, p. 64, note 13.
[40] The traditional account is here given—some explanation of the absence of definite dates may be found in the hypothesis that there were always folding-fans—that the device of pleating a piece of paper or other material is so simple that it might occur to the youngest child. As a matter of fact, Nature herself invented the folded fan, as she may be said to suggest every invention. The palmetto leaf in its undeveloped shape is pleated and packed as neatly and completely as any folding-fan ever made.