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... Maha Sen 280 Fnd of the Solar race 381 State of Ceylon at that period 381 Prosperity of the North CHAP . XI . 381 Description of Anarajapoora in the THE REIGN OF PRAKRAMA BAHU . fourth century 382 Its municipal organisation 382 Its ...
... Maha Sen 280 Fnd of the Solar race 381 State of Ceylon at that period 381 Prosperity of the North CHAP . XI . 381 Description of Anarajapoora in the THE REIGN OF PRAKRAMA BAHU . fourth century 382 Its municipal organisation 382 Its ...
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... Maha - Moodliar and First Interpreter to the Governor ; and to Mr. DE ALWIS , the erudite translator of the Sidath Sangara . From the Rev. Mr. GOGERLY of the Wesleyan Mission , I have received expositions of Buddhist policy ; and the ...
... Maha - Moodliar and First Interpreter to the Governor ; and to Mr. DE ALWIS , the erudite translator of the Sidath Sangara . From the Rev. Mr. GOGERLY of the Wesleyan Mission , I have received expositions of Buddhist policy ; and the ...
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... Maha- wanso , p . xxxiv . 2 Some of the mammalia peculiar to the island are enumerated at p . published at Venice in A.D. 1576 , laments his inability B 4 CHAP . I. ] 7 GEOGRAPHICAL POSITION . (note) Errors as to the dimensions Ceylon ...
... Maha- wanso , p . xxxiv . 2 Some of the mammalia peculiar to the island are enumerated at p . published at Venice in A.D. 1576 , laments his inability B 4 CHAP . I. ] 7 GEOGRAPHICAL POSITION . (note) Errors as to the dimensions Ceylon ...
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... Maha , which is sown about July and August , and reaped in December and January , and the Yalla , which is sown in spring , and reaped from the 15th of July to the 20th September . But owing to the different description of seed sown in ...
... Maha , which is sown about July and August , and reaped in December and January , and the Yalla , which is sown in spring , and reaped from the 15th of July to the 20th September . But owing to the different description of seed sown in ...
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... Maha Oya and other rivers flowing towards the west . But the quantity hitherto discovered has been too trivial to reward the search . The early in- habitants of the island were not ignorant of its presence ; but its occurrence on a ...
... Maha Oya and other rivers flowing towards the west . But the quantity hitherto discovered has been too trivial to reward the search . The early in- habitants of the island were not ignorant of its presence ; but its occurrence on a ...
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Page 519 - And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready before it was brought thither; so that there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.