Страница - 9Страница - 11FATE OF THE SINGHALESE MONARCHY.
ARRIVAL OF THE PORTUGUESE, A.D. 1505.
- Prakrama Baku, the last powerful king [411]
- Anarchy follows on his decease [411]
- A.D. 1197. The Queen Leela-Wattee [412]
- A.D. 1211. Return of the Malabar invaders [412]
- The Malabars establish themselves at Jaffna [413]
- Early history of Jaffna [413]
- A.D. 1235. The new capital at Dambedenia [413]
- Extending ruin of Ceylon [414]
- Kandy founded as a new capital [414]
- Successive removals of the seat of Government to Yapahoo,
Kornegalle, Gampola, Kandy, and Cotta [415]
- Ascendancy of the Malabars [415]
- A.D. 1410. The King of Ceylon carried captive to China [416]
- Ceylon tributary to China [417]
- Arrival of the Portuguese in Ceylon [418]
PART IV.
SCIENCES AND SOCIAL ARTS.
CHAPTER I.
POPULATION, CASTE, SLAVERY, AND RAJA-KARIYA.
- Population encouraged by the fertility of Ceylon
[421]
- Evidence of its former extent in the ruins of the tanks and
canals [422]
- Means by which the population was preserved [423]
- Causes of its dispersion—the ruin of the tanks [424]
- Domestic life similar to that of the Hindus [425]
- Respect shown to females [425]
- Caste perpetuated in defiance of religious prohibition [425]
- Particulars in which caste in Ceylon differs from caste in
India [425]
- Slavery, borrowed from Hindustan [425]
- Compulsory labour or Raja-kariya [426]
- Mode of enforcing it [427]
CHAP. II.
AGRICULTURE, IRRIGATION, CATTLE, AND CROPS.