A History of Indian Literature v2.c19.s5.134
A History of Indian Literature v2.c19.s5.134
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³ This section of the Aṭṭhakathā, which was also a source of the Mahāvaṃsa, is quoted in the commentary on the latter, as Sīhalaṭṭhakathā-Mahāvaṃsa, *i.e.*, "the great History (of the Island of Ceylon) belonging to the Singhalese Commentary," and in the poem of the Mahāvaṃsa itself, as "the (Mahāvaṃsa) composed by the ancients." According to *Geiger*, Dīp. und Mah., p. 71, it was an independent chronicle; according to *Oldenberg* (Dīpavaṃsa, Introd., p. 4) with whom I agree, it was an historical introduction to a theological commentary.