This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XVII AN ABBEY AND A HERMITAGE Follow1ng the road southwards from the precinct of the Holy Tree, one passes by the bazaar and along a fringe of native houses; then, on the right, appears a mound all covered with trees. The place is melancholy, shapeless, ruined, obliterated, with a deep red ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XVII AN ABBEY AND A HERMITAGE Follow1ng the road southwards from the precinct of the Holy Tree, one passes by the bazaar and along a fringe of native houses; then, on the right, appears a mound all covered with trees. The place is melancholy, shapeless, ruined, obliterated, with a deep red scar in its face, showing where scientific hands have vainly dug into its depths to find treasures, and, having found nothing, then abandoned the mound in contempt. And the forlorn sight is yet sadder when one calls up the past. For this nameless lump was once some very sacred dagaba, now all jumbled into a mere hummock of soil, but once resplendent with glaze and colour and riches of every sort. They identify it, too, with a building of the third century B.C., but there is no trace of any authoritative name; all memory of the thupa's real history has perished, and the populace gives the ruined dome a name that is clearly false. For Elala the Cholyan was killed, cremated, and buried by the Southern Gate of the royal city, and the Southern Gate must have lain a very great deal further south than this mound, hardly a stone's throw from the Holy Tree itself, the heart of the Sacred City; and therefore the tomb of Elala this can never have been. In the century after the reign of King Devanampiyatissa, Ceylon had a foretaste of its later troubles, of its ultimate ruin. First came over from India two Tamil youths, who killed the reigning monarch, and reigned righteously, says the Mahavansa, in his place--which means that they were favourable to the Church and respected the shrines. After they had ruled for two-and-twenty years, they were displaced and killed by Mutasiva, the last of Devanampiyatissa's nine brothers, who was King for ten years, then...
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