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² For a favourable view of the Ceylon chronicles see Rhys Davids’s *Buddhist India*; and, on the other side, Foulkes, ‘The Vicissitudes of the Buddhist Literature of Ceylon’ (*Ind. Ant.* xvii, 100); ‘Buddhaghosa’ (ibid. xix, 105); Taw Sein Ko, ‘Kalyāṇi Inscriptions’ (ibid. xxii, 14); V. A. Smith, *Asoka, the Buddhist Emperor of India*, 3rd ed. 1920. The *Mahāvaṁsa* exists in more recensions than one; but that ordinarily quoted is the one translated by Turnour, whose version has been revised by Wijesimha. The latest version is that by Prof. Geiger and Mrs. Bode (*J. Pāli Text Soc.*, 1912). Mr. John Still’s *Index to the Mahawansa* (Colombo, 1907), is useful. The *Dīpavaṁśa* has been translated by Prof. Oldenberg. See Geiger, *Dīpavaṁśa und Mahāvaṁśa* (Leipzig, Böhme, 1905; Engl. transl. in *Ind. Ant.*, 1906, p. 153).