 | John Kitto - Bible - 1863 - 524 pages
...themselves ; and, whilst tradition asserts that some of our early Singhalese Annals from which the Mahawansa was compiled, were the works of some of our monarchs,...sovereigns took in this part of the national literature was so great indeed, that many a traveller and geographer of the middle ages was peculiarly struck, as... | |
 | John Kitto - Bible - 1863 - 526 pages
...themselves ; and, whilst tradition asserts that some of our early Singhalese Annals from which the Mahawansa was compiled, were the works of some of our monarchs,...sovereigns took in this part of the national literature was so great indeed, that many a traveller and geographer of the middle ages was peculiarly struck, as... | |
 | Pali literature - 1883 - 186 pages
...Singhalese Annals from which the Mahawansa was compiled were the works of some of our monarchs—History records the facts, that 'the national annals were...sovereigns took in this part of the national literature was so great indeed, that many a traveller and geographer of the middle ages was peculiarly struck, as... | |
 | Pali Text Society - Pali literature - 1883 - 188 pages
...Singhalese Annals from which the Mahawansa was compiled were the works of some of our monarchs—History records the facts, that 'the national annals were...sovereigns took in this part of the national literature was so great indeed, that many a traveller and geographer of the middle ages was peculiarly struck, as... | |
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The interest which our sovereigns took in this part of the national literature was so great indeed, that many a traveller and geographer of the middle ages was peculiarly struck, as " a trait of the native rulers of Ceylon," with the fact of the employment... 