[Buddha-l] Dharmapala

[L.S. Cousins]

Artur Karp wrote:

> Some stats related to terms denoting war and violent death in the 
> Mahavamsa:
>

I am also not sure what the point is.


It is clear that for some periods the author of Mhv has very little 
historical information available to him. So some chapters are reduced to 
a) how this or that king came to power and b) a small amount of 
information on donations and good works derived either from sangha 
records or from inscriptions which were in situ.

>
> I am not sure, whether these numbers would serve making this
> discussion down-to-earthier (if I may say so).
>
I doubt that the history of Ceylon is any bloodier than the history of 
most other places. It just has a longer record than many.

Lance Cousins