The Appeal to the Serpent; Or Life in an Ancient Buddhist City: A Story of Ceylon in the Fourth Century (Classic Reprint)

Men, driven by fear, go to many a refuge, To mountains and forests, to groves and sacred trees. BUDDHAGOSHA. To Mihintala, men had gone as to a refuge during many centuries, even before the time in which our story opens. The natural features of the hill, and its solitary majesty, had invested it in the earliest days with a sacred character. To the builders of Anuradhapura it was a favoured habitation of the gods, and it is possible that the nearness of the holy mountain influenced their decision as to the locality in which the royal city should be built, as much as the constellation under which it was founded, and from which its name was partly derived. The old Pali chronicles are full of the praises of the Founded about 450 B.C. by Prince A nuradho, and called after the constellation of that name.
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