Pali Text Society. The Mahavamsa

Rhys Davids for all the kind and liberal assistance he has afforded me and for the keen interest he has always taken in my plan; also to the principals of the India Office Library of the Cambridge University Library of the Royal Library at Copenhagen and of the Colombo Museum Library for kindly lending me the MSS. [...] Nay the divA"IV sion of the single words is a new element and we have seen above that even the attempt to unify the ever varying orthgraphy of the -MSS. does sometimes go beyond the limits of a mere transliteration and become somewhat like an interpretation of the original text. [...] Moreover I had to quote the readings of the:11'1B those of the editions hitherto printed (together with the variants quoted in the notes of the Colombo edition) and those of the Pali works connected with or depending upon the Mahavamsa. [...] 34 of the englial edition)."-->4 TX t÷ where I thought it necessary to emend the text of the prined edition of the Tikrt. [...] The new sentence begins with 64: „When thus the bodhi tree was planted for the benefit of the islanders by the glory of the holy Buddha Anula became nun &c.