636 NOTE TO CHAPTER II. 



A.D. 1739. King Raja Singha, who built his palace at Han- 

 giiranketti near Kandy, caused it to be inscribed 

 on a rock, that he had " dedicated lands in the 

 Wanny to the sacred Bo-tree." (Foebes's Eleven 

 Years in Ceylon, vol. ii. p. 119.) 



