Mahāvaṃsa, the Great Chronicle of Sri Lanka: Chapters One to Thirty-seven : an Annotated New Translation with Prolegomena |
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... Lankan sources for critical scrutiny . ( vi ) Sri Lankan Historical Sources In Sri Lanka , the psychology of an island - nation asserting its cultural and political identity and the Buddhist attitude to history seem to have found a ...
... Lankan sources for critical scrutiny . ( vi ) Sri Lankan Historical Sources In Sri Lanka , the psychology of an island - nation asserting its cultural and political identity and the Buddhist attitude to history seem to have found a ...
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... Sri Lankan historical tradition contained rare factual information which had not been so preserved elsewhere . 62 Archaeology thus has underwritten as it continues to do in Sri Lanka as more monuments and inscriptions are being ...
... Sri Lankan historical tradition contained rare factual information which had not been so preserved elsewhere . 62 Archaeology thus has underwritten as it continues to do in Sri Lanka as more monuments and inscriptions are being ...
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... Sri Lanka up - to - date , in spite of the geographical proximity and numerical prepondence in South India of Dravidian Languages and culture . Separating Sri Lanka from the vast Indo - Aryan element of the Northern and Central regions ...
... Sri Lanka up - to - date , in spite of the geographical proximity and numerical prepondence in South India of Dravidian Languages and culture . Separating Sri Lanka from the vast Indo - Aryan element of the Northern and Central regions ...
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