chapter xxvii

. There are several other instances of similar gifts in the Mahavansa.

(4) Watters calls attention to this as showing that the monks of K’eeh-ch’a had the credit of possessing weather-controlling powers.

(5) The text here has {.} {.}, not {.} alone. I often found in monasteries boys and lads who looked up to certain of the monks as their preceptors.

(6) Compare what is said in