Age of the Nandas and Mauryas c11.s38.31

c11.s38.31

Lastly, the *Mahāvaṃsa* has conserved the story of Ceylonese affairs in much detail, and as the chronicle is obviously worked up from more ancient records, and some of its details find confirmation in the rock-cut Brāhmī inscriptions above mentioned, we come to know a little more of Ceylon in this period than of the mainland of South India.