250-230).
(3) This would be what is known as "Adam's peak," having, according to Hardy (pp.

211, 212, notes), the three names of Selesumano, Samastakuta, and Samanila.

"There is an indentation on the top of it," a superficial hollow, 5 feet 3 3_4 inches long, and about 2 1_2 feet wide.

The Hindus regard it as the footprint of Siva; the Mohameddans, as that of Adam; and the Buddhists, as in the text,--as having been made by Buddha.
(4) Meaning "The Fearless Hill." There is still the Abhayagiri tope, the highest in Ceylon, according to Davids, 250 feet in height, and built about B.C.90, by Watta Gamini, in whose reign, about 160 years after the Council of Patna, and 330 years after the death of Sakyamuni, the Tripitaka was first reduced to writing in Ceylon;--"Buddhism," p.

234.
(5) We naturally suppose that the merchant-offerer was a Chinese, as indeed the Chinese texts say, and the fan such as Fa-Hsien had seen and used in his native land.
(6) This should be the pippala, or bodhidruma, generally spoken of, in connexion with Buddha, as the Bo tree, under which he attained to the Buddhaship.