see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Burmese script. Mahāsammata (Burmese: မဟာသမ္မတမင်း; also spelled Maha Samrat; lit. "the Great Elect")...

sangha." The Aggañña Sutta of the Pali Canon introduces a figure named "Mahāsammata" (Pali; lit. "the Great Elect") as the first monarch. The scripture elaborates...

accounts of the Ikshvaku dynasty but, according to the Buddhist texts, Mahasammata, an ancestor of Ikshvaku who was elected by the people as the first king...

distinctions and government and elected a king to rule them, called Mahāsammata, "the great appointed one". Some of the kings of India in the Buddha's...

Mathura. Although the Buddha connected these cities to the mythical king Mahāsammata, it is possible that they were in reality the cities of Boukephala and...

expressed that King Nimi belongs to a long line of Kings descending from Mahāsammata, the first king of humankind. The Buddha is believed to be a descendant...

Buddhist text of the second century BC Mahāvastu recounts the legend of Mahasammata. The story goes as follows: In the early days of the cosmic cycle mankind...

(archived 2011) Dipankara meets Sumitta and Sumedha (archived 2011) Mahásammata (archived 2012) The Life of Princess Yashodara: Wife and Disciple of...

queen, and another that traces the ancestry of Rakhine monarchs back to Mahasammata, the legendary first monarch of the world. After the Kingdom of Mrauk...

social distinctions and government and elect a king to rule them, called Mahāsammata। महासम्मत, "the great appointed one". Some of them begin to hunt and...

hand, that of the king, the cakravartin, the divine descendant from Mahāsammata, and on the other hand, the human being, the person who struggled to...

King of Kalinga Mahasammata line of Kings King of Vanga Princess Prince Jayasena The Lion Suppadevi Royal Standard Bearer Kacchana Sihahanu Yasodhara...

the world and how society has emerged. The first monarch was known as Mahasammata, Raja, Khattiya. He belonged to Solar Race and he was ancestor of Shakyamuni...

King of Kalinga Mahasammata line of Kings King of Vanga Princess Prince Jayasena The Lion Suppadevi Royal Standard Bearer Kacchana Sihahanu Yasodhara...

saying: Oh King! please act always as the good and righteous kings from Mahāsammata at the beginning of the world onwards. Oh King! do not be harsh to your...