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Excerpt from An Epitome of the History of Ceylon: Compiled From Native Annals, and the First Twenty Chapters of the Mahawanso
In the comparatively short period that this colony has been a British possession, several histories, besides minor historical notices, of Ceylon have already been published in English. The individuals to whom we are indebted for those works, unacquainted themselves with the native languages, and misguided by the persons from whom they derived their information, have concurred in representing that there were no authentic historical records to be found in Ceylon. Cordiner affords no information regarding them and falls at once into an anachronism of 471 years, by applying the following remark to the Buddha' worshipped in Ceylon Sir W. Jones, on taking the medium of four several dates, fixes the time of Buddha, or the ninth great incarnation Of Vishnu, in the year 1014 before the birth of Christ. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
