Mahāvaṃsa, the Great Chronicle of Sri Lanka: Chapters One to Thirty-seven : an Annotated New Translation with Prolegomena |
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... Dipavamsa and the Mahāvamsa . The Dipavamsa , which turned out to be nothing more than a chronologically ordered and faithfully reproduced anthology of selections from the original sources , had drawn its materials from two or three ...
... Dipavamsa and the Mahāvamsa . The Dipavamsa , which turned out to be nothing more than a chronologically ordered and faithfully reproduced anthology of selections from the original sources , had drawn its materials from two or three ...
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... Dipavamsa and the Mahavamsa , Geiger's conclusion is as follows : “ either ..... the author of the Mahavamsa adopted these verses unchanged or with little alteration from the Dipavamsa or they were to be found in the older sources . For ...
... Dipavamsa and the Mahavamsa , Geiger's conclusion is as follows : “ either ..... the author of the Mahavamsa adopted these verses unchanged or with little alteration from the Dipavamsa or they were to be found in the older sources . For ...
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... Dipavamsa is silent on this subject . A significant divergence in the account of the third visit of the Buddha is the list of sites of future shrines which he is said to have consecrated by entering into meditation . While the Dipavamsa ...
... Dipavamsa is silent on this subject . A significant divergence in the account of the third visit of the Buddha is the list of sites of future shrines which he is said to have consecrated by entering into meditation . While the Dipavamsa ...
Contents
Foreword by His Excellency J R Jayewardene | 5 |
A Double Anniversary Why Another Translation? | 11 |
Chapter | 27 |
Copyright | |
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Abhaya according Anula Anuradhapura Arahants Asoka Atthakatha bhikkhunis bhikkhus Bodhi-tree Brahman brother Buddha Buddhadatta Buddhist built called century ceremony cetiya Ceylon Chapter Colombo consecrated Council Damila death Devanampiya-Tissa Dhamma Dipavamsa Dutthagamani dynasty earth edicts Elara elephant established Extended Mahavamsa Faith foll Geiger renders Geiger translates George Turnour gods Gothabhaya hundred Ibid island king king's kṣatriya literature lord Mahasena Mahavamsa Mahavihara Mahinda Malalasekera meaning Mendis mentioned ministers Moggaliputta-Tissa monastery monks Mutasiva Naga Nicholas Pāli Pali Chronicles Pandukabhaya Paranavitana pious prince records reference reign relics religious Rhys Davids rock inscription Rohana royal ruler samanera Sangha Sanghamitta says scholars Sinhala Sinhalese sources South India Sri Lanka thera Thera Mahinda theri thousand throne thupa Thuparama Tika explains tion Tissa took Turnour UCHC Uttiya Vamsatthappakasini Vasabha verse vihara Vijaya warriors word Yakkhas yojanas