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Title: Indika. The country and the people of India and Ceylon
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Hurst, J. F. (John Fletcher), 1834-1903
Subjects: Sri Lanka India
Publisher: New York, Harper
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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no sympathywith the nineteenth century. In Kandy, whether one will or not, the mind will go back tothe Lake region in England. You find a calm and quiet beauty,a freedom from strain and stress, a cluster of hillsides whichthrow down their beautiful face into the mirroring lake at theirfeet, a sweetness in all the pulsations of the air, and a univer-sal friendliness between all Nature and its lord, which bringup Grassmere, Windermere, Derwentwater, and their spirits—Southey, Wordsworth, Coleridge, and all the rest of the Cum-berland immortals. Even the hostelry of Kandy, the QueensHotel, suggested to me immediately the Keswick inn. Thewhole reminder was pleasant enough at first. But too much ofsuch resemblances is not good. You can less easily resign your-self to the novelty of your new environment. You lose the newby recalling too intensely the old. KANDY AND TTS W0ND1 The story of Kandy is the history of Ceylon.* It g Asia inminiature. Ptolemy and Pliny mention it. and call it Ann
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TIIK GIANT BAMBOOS IN TIIK IKRADTNTA SEAR KWIY grammum. Hut it then disappeared entirely from hist n<l only came again to the surface in the fourteenth century, dui * Torment is the best authority for the hisl mdition For all practical pui si - Ferguson, Directory : i 266 INDIKA. the reign of Prakrama Bahu III. It was he who embellishedKandy, surrounded it with all the sanctities of the Buddhistfaith, and erected a temple to the Sacred Tooth of Buddha.The possession of this relic, spurious as it is, together with thecountless jewels which are stored away in the many shrinesabout the great and smaller temples, has made Kandy the Can-terbury of the whole Buddhist world. With the year 1505,when the Portuguese first landed in Ceylon, Kandy became acoveted prize for the ambitious schemes of every European na-tion which aimed at Asiatic conquests. The Portuguese, not sat-isfied with enriching themselves with the trade of Ceylon, resolvedon planting Roman Catholicism firmly throug

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