 | Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland - Asia - 1834 - 502 pages
...ungrammatical, and which the Mahawanso, p. 50, confirms, by telling that when Wijayo and his men "had landed, supporting themselves on the palms of their hands pressed on the ground, they [sat down. Hence to them the name Tambapannyo, copper-palmed," and to the wilderness the name of Tambapanni,... | |
 | George Turnour - Pali literature - 1836 - 390 pages
...at their head, exhausted hy (sea) sickness, and faint from weakness, had landed out of the vessel, supporting themselves on the palms of their hands...they sat themselves down. Hence to them the name of " Tamhapanniyo," (copper-palmed, from the color of the soil). From this circumstance that wilderness... | |
 | Mahānāma - Buddhism - 1837 - 460 pages
...at their head, exhausted by (sea) sickness, and faint from weakness, had landed out of the vessel, supporting themselves on the palms of their hands pressed on the ground, they sat themselves down. t * » A Z' Hence to them the name of " Tambapauniyo," (copper-palmed, from the color of the soil).... | |
 | Sir James Emerson Tennent - Natural history - 1859 - 732 pages
...whose followers, " exhausted by sea sickness and faint from weakness, sat down at the spot where they had landed out of the vessels, supporting themselves on the palms of their hands pressed to the ground, whence the name The transformation of gneiss into laterite in these localities has been... | |
 | Sir James Emerson Tennent - Ceylon - 1860 - 698 pages
...whose followers, " exhausted by sea-sickness and faint from weakness, sat down at the spot where they had landed out of the vessels, supporting themselves on the palms of their The transformation of gneiss into laterite in these localities has been attributed to the circumstance,... | |
 | Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland - Asia - 1861 - 698 pages
...ungrammatical, and which the Mahawanso, p. 50, confirms, by telling that when Wijayo and his men " had landed, supporting themselves on the palms of their hands pressed on the ground, they 'sat down. Hence to them the name Tambapannyo, copper-palmed," and to the wilderness the name of Tambapanui,... | |
 | Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland - Asia - 1861 - 584 pages
...ungramraatical, and which the Mahawanso, p. 50, confirms, by telling that when Wijayo and his men " had landed, supporting themselves on the palms of their hands pressed on the ground, they sat down. Hence to them the name Tsmbapannyo, copper-palmed," and to the wilderness the name of Tambapanni,... | |
 | Osmond de Beauvoir Priaulx - India - 1873 - 298 pages
...grammatical, but which the Mahawanso, p. 50, confirms, by teIling that when Wijayo and his men "had landed, supporting themselves on the palms of their hands pressed on the ground, they sat down. Hence to them the name Tambapannyo, copper-palmed," and to the wilderness the name of Tambapanni,... | |
 | Sri Lanka - 1894 - 554 pages
...sickness, and faint from w> v.kness) had landed out of the vessel, supporting themselves on the ]i:'.lms of their hands pressed on the ground, they sat themselves down. Hence, to them the name of Tambapanniyo (copper-^a/met/, irom the colour of the soil.) From this circumstance that wilderness obtained the... | |
 | Dhammakitti - 1909 - 574 pages
...at their head, exhausted by (sea) sickness, and faint from weakness, had landed out of the "vessel, supporting themselves on the palms of their hands...pressed on the ground, they sat themselves down. Hence 1fe» them the name of " Tdmbawannapdnaya " (copper-palmed, from the colour of the soil). From this... | |
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At the spot where the seven hundred men, with the king at their head, exhausted by (sea) sickness, and faint from weakness, had landed out of the vessel, supporting themselves on the palms of their hands pressed on the ground, they sat themselves down.... 
