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22. — The second sub-king must have been " The Palace of the 
Rear Guard " (great personages are called by the names of their 
residences), who is at the head of the Reserve Forces. But more pro- 
bably it was one of the great ministers, to judge from the reception. — J. 
23. — The Was season : the rainy season, when the priests retire from 
the forests into houses. 
24. — Kujayoth Ratnarama : probably Wat Jayawardhanarama, one 
of the well-known and royal temples, now in ruins. — J. 
25. — No Minister of State would be employed in carrying things 
even at a religious procession. These were probably minor officers 
dressed as Devas.— J. 
26. — -No sub-kings are entrusted with affairs of State except of the 
War Department and in building defensive works in war time. The two 
great ministers are of the Interior and War, or of the North and South, 
having charge of the Government of the Northern and Southern 
Provinces respectively, and the latter of military affairs in time of 
peace as well. — J. 
27. — This is really the " Light Offering," or Padipa Puja performed 
on water twice at the end of the Was season on the full moon of the 
eleventh and twelfth months, and is continued three days on each 
occasion. The middle day is the full moon, on which the people indulge 
in extravagance, in music, singing and playing on the water, and make 
offerings of floating lights and flowers and fireworks in miniature 
temporary boats and vessels of all sorts. It is in fact a popular fete. — J. 
28. — Only three out of the five ambassadors, viz., EllepolaMohottala, 
AittaliyaddeRala, and Wilbagedara, went on the pilgrimage to the Sacred 
Footprint : they were accompanied by seventeen of their suite^ whose 
names are also stated. 
On passing the first wall enclosing the sacred site the pilgrims 
knelt and worshipped with their foreheads touching the ground ; then 
they passed the copper umbrellas with stocks three spans in circum- 
ference, and up the stone steps with the serpents on either side to the 
first stage ; another flight of stone steps brought them to the s3corid 
stage, which was sprinkled with sand. These stages appear to have run 
right round the mountain peak. The next flight was covered with lead, 
and led to the last stage, which was similarly covered. The imprint 
was of the right foot ; it was enclosed in a building 14 carpenters' 
cubits square and 18 fathoms high ; while the shrine over the imprint 
itself was 7 cubits high, raised on pillars of gold. Wilbagedara also 
testifies to the extraordinary expenditure of gold over the ornamentation 
of the temple. 
Reference is made to this shrine by Baldseus, who also gives a list of 
the auspicious signs. 
29. — The rock on which the footprint was discovered had been named 
" Suwanna banphot : " Fancliata is evidently iiahhata^ and malia 
paliatha is 7naha prasat. Prasat is the corrupt Pali prasdda, a building 
of from one to nine stories with a dagaba-shaped top, like the Brazen 
Palace at Anuradhapura. The now existing building, called the 
mandape, has replaced the original structure which was destroyed by 
lightning.— J. 
30. — Native resthouses for pilgrims, which abound to this day. — J. 
31. — Probably Satapmma pabbata, adapted from the name of the 
ancient cave in Rajagaha at which the first Buddhist Council took 
place. — J. 
