[486] Lassen, loc. cit. 22, 91. n. 1.
[487] Burnouf, loc. cit. p. 147, 435.
[488] Diod. 2, 39. Strabo, p. 702. Arrian, "Ind." 10, 6, 7.
[489] Lassen, "Ind. Alterth." 12, 649, 650.
[490] Manu, 10, 45.
[491] 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.
[492] Benfey, "Indien," s. 221. Neither the book of the law nor the sutras of the Buddhists mention the Pariahs, often as they speak of the Chandalas.
[493] Lassen, "Ind. Alterth." 22, 99 ff., 108 ff.
[494] Lassen, loc. cit. 12, 137, n. 4, 22, 99 ff. The island then received from the city of Tamraparni the name which is still in use among the natives; Tamraparni is in Pali, Tambapanni; and from this is formed the Taprobane of the Greeks. Lanka is no doubt the older name, but like Sinhala it is still in use.
[495] Westergaard, "Ueber Buddha's Todesjahr," s. 100 ff. Lassen, loc. cit. 22, 100 ff.