Chau Ju-kwa, p. 73, has: "The King holds in his hand a jewel five inches
in diameter, which cannot be burnt by fire, and which shines in (the
darkness of) night like a torch. The King rubs his face with it daily, and
though he were passed ninety he would retain his youthful looks.
"The people of the country are very dark-skinned, they wrap a sarong round
their bodies, go bare-headed and bare-footed."
XIV., p. 314 n.
THE ISLAND OF CEYLON.
The native kings of this period were Pandita Prakama Bahu II., who reigned
from 1267 to 1301 at Dambadenia, about 40 miles north-north-east of
Columbo (Marco Polo's time); Vijaya Bahu IV. (1301-1303); Bhuwaneka Bahu
I. (1303-1314); Prakama Bahu III. (1314-1319); Bhuwaneka Bahu II. (1319).
SAGAMONI BORCAN.
= Sakya Muni Burkhan.
XV., p. 319. Seilan-History of Sagamoni Borcan. "And they maintain ...
that the teeth, and the hair, and the dish that are there were those of
the same king's son, whose name was Sagamoni Borcan, or Sagamoni the
Saint."
See J.F. FLEET, The Tradition about the corporeal Relics of Buddha.
(Jour. R. As. Soc., 1906, and April, 1907, pp.
