Public Administration in Ancient India c4.23

c4.23

² Prof. Rhys Davids says: “What we find in such chronicles is not indeed sober history, as we should now understand the term, but neither is it pure fiction. It is good evidence of opinion as held at the time when it was written.” Prof. Geiger seems also to be of the same opinion. The approximate dates of composition of the Dīpavamsa and the Mahāvamsa were the fourth and the fifth century A.D. respectively.