[18] De gawwak tiyā mī-maessō ewidinawā. [↑]
[19] Porōga, perhaps for pura-rōga. [↑]
[20] This is the Raja-mīya, or Royal Bee-hive, of the Wanniyās; it has this name in the next variant. [↑]
[21] Pallēm pallēm. Pallēm may be palla, bottom + im, pl. of ima, boundary, limit. [↑]
[23] The Sinhalese title is, The Story of a Nobleman (Siṭāna kenekun̆ge kathāwa). [↑]
[24] A kalpa is a day and night of Brahmā, or 1,000 Yugas, and therefore 432 million years (see vol. i, p. 49). [↑]
[25] Waraṭa āwāya, that is, become mature. [↑]
[26] For an account of the Royal Bee-hive, see Ancient Ceylon, p. 170. [↑]