Manual of Indian Buddhism c7.s2.45

c7.s2.45

² The preference to the Simhalese account is, from a critical standpoint, the less intelligible, because ever since TURNOUR advocated the claims of the Simhalese chronology, it has been admitted on all hands that it contains an error of more than 60 years. That error has been palliated by the guess that such an error has sprung up after the period of Aśoka. But a system which contains such a blunder or wilful misstatement at a later period is a fortiori suspicious for more ancient times.