Mahāvaṃsa, the Great Chronicle of Sri Lanka: Chapters One to Thirty-seven : an Annotated New Translation with Prolegomena |
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... constructed a conical building , called Nugula - Maha - saiya , in which he deposited some bones of Budhu ; and on this festival there assembled about 24,000 Budhu priests , in the midst of whom the king caused the ten grand throes to ...
... constructed a conical building , called Nugula - Maha - saiya , in which he deposited some bones of Budhu ; and on this festival there assembled about 24,000 Budhu priests , in the midst of whom the king caused the ten grand throes to ...
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... constructed by Asoka one nineteenth were assigned to China and one of them was identified as a stupa on the hill Yo - wan- shan near Ningpo . Even more significant as a mark of Chinese esteem is that monasteries and pagodas were constructed ...
... constructed by Asoka one nineteenth were assigned to China and one of them was identified as a stupa on the hill Yo - wan- shan near Ningpo . Even more significant as a mark of Chinese esteem is that monasteries and pagodas were constructed ...
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... constructed the entrance to it through the bed- room of the king . Inside , they placed her and a maid - servant and outside a hundred men . 5 Since , by her beauty , she drove men mad by the mere sight , her name received an epithet as ...
... constructed the entrance to it through the bed- room of the king . Inside , they placed her and a maid - servant and outside a hundred men . 5 Since , by her beauty , she drove men mad by the mere sight , her name received an epithet as ...
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