1. After 1972 Ceylon was known as Sri Lanka.
2. K.M. de Silva,Social Policy and Missionary Organization in Ceylon 1840–1855(London, 1965), p. 206.
3. An Ilukvewa inscription datable to the second century AD bears the earliest epigraphic information in this regard. M. Dias (ed. and trans.),Epigraphia Zeylanica, vol. 8 (Colombo, 2001), p. 65. See also S. Paranavitaha (ed. and trans.),Epigraphia Zeylanica, vol. 6.1 (Colombo, 1973), p. 124. HenceforthEpigraphia Zeylanicashall be abbreviated asEZ.
4. Slavery from Known to Unknown: A comparative study of slavery in ancient Greek poleis and ancient Sri Lanka