Mahāvaṃsa (Sinhala: මහාවංශ (Mahāvansha), Pali: මහාවංස (Mahāvaṃsa)) is the meticulously kept historical chronicle of Sri Lanka until the period of Mahasena...

Mahavamsa Part III is the title of a Sinhala language continuation of the Mahavamsa published in 1935 by Yagirala Pannananda, a Sri Lankan Buddhist monk...

preserved in Pali-language texts, such as Dipavamsa, Mahavamsa, Vamsatthapakasini (a commentary on Mahavamsa), Buddhaghosha's commentary on the Vinaya, and...

Tambapanni, based in modern day Sri Lanka. His reign was first mentioned in Mahāvaṃsa. He is said to have came to Sri Lanka with a seven hundred followers after...

Life, and Teachings of the Founder of Buddhism by Hans Wolfgang Schumann Mahāvaṃsa, the Great Chronicle of Ceylon by Wilhelm Geiger. Misra, V.S. (2007)....

mean "lion-slayer". The story of the derivation of Sinhala is told in Mahāvaṃsa, and it is believed to be a reference to the founding legend of Sri Lanka;...

as the Dipavamsa, Mahāvaṃsa, Cūḷavaṃsa, and Rājāvaliya. Once Prakrit speakers had attained dominance on the island, the Mahavamsa further recounts the...

Editors of Encyclopaedia. "Mahāvaṃsa". Encyclopedia Britannica, 16 Sep. 2019, https://www.britannica.com/topic/Mahavamsa . Accessed 26 January 2021....

Ashokavadana and Pamsupradanavadana), Dipavamsa, Mahavamsa, Vamsatthappakasini (also known as Mahvamsa Tika or "Mahavamsa commentary"), Samantapasadika, and the...

Bhagavata Purana (Canto 9, Chapter 1), The Buddhist text, Buddhavaṃsa and Mahāvaṃsa (II, 1–24) traces the origin of the Shakyas to king Okkaka (Pali equivalent...

and other sources around the 3rd to 4th century CE. Together with the Mahāvaṃsa, it is the source of many accounts of the ancient history of Sri Lanka...

Wickramasinghe and Renuka Balasuriya. The film is based on the legend in the Mahāvaṃsa where playwright Ediriweera Sarachchandra produced a stage drama under...

supposed former abundance of lions on the island. According to the chronicle Mahāvaṃsa, written in Pali, Prince Vijaya of the Vanga Kingdom and his entourage...

texts that provide information about his life (such as Ashokavadana and Mahavamsa) do not name his mother. The Asokavadanamala names her Subhadrangi, while...

Buddhist tradition. The chronicles of Theravada Buddhist tradition such as Mahāvaṃsa and Maha Yazawin state that he was the founder of the Shakya dynasty,...

Paranavithana (1936) p 459 MENDIS, G. C. “The Mahābhārata Legends in the Mahāvaṃsa.” The Journal of the Ceylon Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great...

Mahavamsa, chap. 17, 17. "CHAPTER XX_The Nibbana Of The Thera". Mahavamsa, chap. 20, 4f. "CHAPTER XXIX_The Beginning Of The Great Thupa". Mahavamsa,...

reign is the Mahavamsa, which in turn is based on the more ancient Dipavamsa. Tissa was the second son of Mutasiva of Anuradhapura. The Mahavamsa describes...

roughly begins in the 3rd century BCE, based on Pali chronicles like the Mahavamsa, the Deepavamsa, and the Culavamsa. They describe the history of Sri Lanka...

its well-preserved ruins of the ancient Sinhalese civilisation. While Mahāvaṃsa places the founding of the city in 437 BCE, the site has been inhabited...

various Puranas and the Mahāvaṃsa.[full citation needed] He is attested by the Buddhist texts such as Dīpavaṃsa and Mahāvaṃsa ("Bindusaro"); the Jain...

"the Mahavamsa mentality.". D. S. Senanayake, who would become Sri Lanka's first prime minister in 1947, reaffirmed in 1939 the common Mahavamsa-based...

Lanka in the 6th century BC, he was greeted by the barking of dogs; the Mahāvaṃsa mentions domestic dogs belonging to the island's Stone Age inhabitants...

by Parakramabahu VI, until his death. Records by Faxian thero and the Mahavamsa suggests it may have extended to Maldives and parts of India as well....

thriving Buddhist community, headed by Greek monks. The epic Sri Lankan poem Mahāvaṃsa mentions the Greek (Pali: Yona, lit: "Ionian") Buddhist monk Mahadhammarakkhita...

and Mahāvaṃsa and their historical development in Ceylon, translated into English by Ethel M. Coomaraswamy, Colombo 1908 (Google-US) The Mahavāmsa or the...

Mahāvaṃsa XXXII. 43, translation by George Turnour (1837), read online : "The Mahavamsa.XXXII. : The Entrance Into the Tusita-Heaven". www.mahavamsa.org...

proliferating Buddhism throughout the Indian subcontinent. The Dipavamsa and the Mahavamsa, Sri Lanka's two great religious chronicles, contain accounts of Mahinda...

traditionally presented as being a just king even by the "'Sinhalese'". The Mahavamsa states that he ruled 'with even justice toward friend and foe, on occasions...

considered as the founder of the dynasty. According to Buddhist text, the Mahavamsa, Bimbisara was appointed king by his father, Bhattiya, at the age of fifteen...