[Footnote 97: Râjasinha I (1581) is said to have made Śivaism the Court religion.] [Footnote 98: His reign is dated as 1679-1701, also as 1687-1706. It is remarkable that the Mahâvaṃsa makes _both_ the kings called Vimala Dharma send religious embassies to Arakan. See XCIV. 15, 16 and XCVII. 10, 11.] [Footnote 99: See for some details Lorgeou: Notice sur un Manuscrit Siamois contenant la relation de deux missions religieuses envoyées de Siam à Ceylon au milieu du xviii Siècle. _Jour. Asiat_. 1906, pp. 533 ff. The king called Dhammika by the Mahâvaṃsa appears to have been known as Phra Song Tham in Siam. The interest felt by the Siamese in Ceylon at this period is shown by the Siamese translation of the Mahâvaṃsa made in 1796.] [Footnote 100: Râmañña is the part of Burma between Arakan and Siam.] [Footnote 101: See Spence Hardy, _Manual of Buddhism_, chap. VII.] [Footnote 102: A translation by S.Z. Aung and Mrs. Rhys Davids has been published by the Pali Text Society. The author Anuruddha appears to have lived between the eighth and twelfth centuries.] [Footnote 103: The Sinhalese had a special respect for the Abhidhamma. Kassapa V (_c._ A.D. 930) caused it to be engraved on plates of gold. _Ep. Zeyl._ I. p. 52.] [Footnote 104: See Coomaraswamy in _J.R.A.S._ 1909, pp. 283-297.] [Footnote 105: For intercourse with Camboja see _Epigr. Zeylanica_, II. p. 74.] [Footnote 106: A dubious legend relates that they were known in the north and suppressed by Harsha. See Ettinghausen, _Harsha Vardhana_, 1906, p. 86. Nil Sâdhana appears to be a name for tantric practices. See Avalon, _Principles of Tantra_, preface, p. xix.] [Footnote 107: In the reigns of Vohâratissa, Goṭhâbhaya, Mahâsena and Ambaherana Salamevan. The kings Matvalasen and Mungayinsen are also known as Sena I and II.] [Footnote 108: Secret Vinaya.] [Footnote 109: _Epigraphia Zeylan_. I. p. 4.] [Footnote 110: One of the king's inscriptions says that he reconciled the clergy of the three Nikâyas. _Ep. Zeyl_. I. p. 134.] [Footnote 111: See Bowden in _J.R.A.S._ 1893, pp. 159 ff. The account refers to the Malwatte Monastery. But it would appear that the Pâtimokkha is recited in country places when a sufficient number of monks meet on Uposatha days.] [Footnote 112: Even the poets were mostly Bhikkhus. Sinhalese literature contains a fair number of historical and philosophical works but curiously little about law. See Jolly, _Recht und Sitte_, p. 44.] [Footnote 113: _E.g._ in the Aṭânâṭiya sutta (Dig. Nik. XXXII.) friendly spirits teach a spell by which members of the order may protect themselves against evil ones and in Jâtaka 159 the Peacock escapes danger by reciting every day a hymn to the sun and the praises of past Buddhas. See also Bunyiu, _Nanjios Catalogue_, Nos. 487 and 800.] [Footnote 114: See for an account of the Maha Saman Devale, _Ceylon Ant._ July, 1916.]