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- Education and schools [501]
- Logic [502]
- Astronomy and astrology [503]
- Medicine and surgery [504]
- King Buddha-dasa a physician [504]
- Botany [505]
- Geometry [505]
- Lightning conductors [506]
- Notice of a remarkable passage in the Mahawanso [507]
CHAP. X.
SINGHALESE LITERATURE.
- The Pali language [512]
- The temples the depositaries of learning [512]
- Historiographers employed by the kings [512]
- Ola books, how prepared [513]
- A stile, and the mode of writing [513]
- Books on plates of metal (note) [513]
- Differences between Elu and Singhalese [513]
- Pali works
- Grammar [514]
- Hardy's list of Singhalese books (note) [515]
- Pali books all written in verse [515]
- The Pittakas [515]
- The Jatakas—resemble the Talmud [516]
- Pali literature generally [516]
- The Milinda-prasna [516]
- Pali historical books and their character [517]
- The Mahawanso [517]
- Scriptural coincidences in Pali books (note)
[518]
- Sanskrit works:
- Principally on science and medicine [520]
- Elu and Singhalese works:
- Low tone of the popular literature [520]
- Chiefly ballads and metrical essays [521]
- Exempt from licentiousness [521]
- Sacred poems in honour of Hindu gods [521]
- General literature of the people [522]
CHAP. XI.
BUDDHISM AND DEMON-WORSHIP.
- Buddhism as it exists in Ceylon [523]
- Which was the more ancient, Brahmanism or Buddhism [523]
- Various authorities (note) [523]
- Buddhism, its extreme antiquity [524]
- Its prodigious influence [524]
- Sought to be identified with the Druids (note) [524]
- Buddhism an agent of civilisation [525]
- Its features in Ceylon [526]
- The various forms elsewhere [527]
- Points that distinguish it from Brahmanism [528]
- Buddhist theory of human perfection [528]
- Its treatment of caste [530]
- Its respect for other religions [530]
- Anecdote, illustrative of (note) [530]
- Its cosmogony [531]
- Its doctrine of "necessity" [532]
- Transmigration [533]
- Illustration from Lucan (note) [533]
- The priesthood and its attributes [534]
- Buddhist morals [534]
- Prohibition to take life [534]
- Form of worship [535]
- Brahmanical corruptions [536]
- Failure of Buddhism as a sustaining faith [537]
- Its moral influence over the people [538]
- Demon-worship [539]
- Trees dedicated to demons (note) [540]
- Devil priests and their orgies [541]
- Ascendency of these superstitions [542]
- Buddhism as an obstacle to Christianity [543]
- Difficulties presented by the morals of Buddhism [544]
- Prohibition against taking away life (note) [544]
PART V.
MEDIÆVAL HISTORY.