Our author's "spirits" {.} {.} were of a gentler type.

His dragons or nagas have come before us again and again.
(2) That Sakyamuni ever visited Ceylon is to me more than doubtful.
Hardy, in M.B., pp.

207-213, has brought together the legends of three visits,--in the first, fifth, and eighth years of his Buddhaship.

It is plain, however, from Fa-Hsien's narrative, that in the beginning of our fifth century, Buddhism prevailed throughout the island.

Davids in the last chapter of his "Buddhism" ascribes its introduction to one of Asoka's missions, after the Council of Patna, under his son Mahinda, when Tissa, "the delight of the gods," was king (B.C.