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		Mahavamsa author had made a deliberate attempt to identify in derogatory terms the four indigenous clans - Raaksha, Yaksha, Naaga and Deva while elevating Vijaya's royalty and the Aryans to a point that their arrival marked the birth of Sri Lankan nation.
		Mahavamsa mentions that at the time, the combined name for the four clans was Sivhela (the four helas) or Sinhala.
		Another strange coincidence of the Mahavamsa author which had sent modern historians into confusion was fixing the demise of the Buddha at 544 BCE and timing it with the date of Vijaya's arrival in Sri Lanka.
	www.dailynews.lk /2004/06/21/fea01.html (1877 words)

	WWW Virtual Library: Owagiri
		There existed an earlier Mahavamsa in Sinhala known as the Sinhala-attakatha-Mahavamsa, which was the source of the Pali Mahavamsa written by the thera Mahanama in the 6th century AC, in the Mahavihara in Anuradhapura.
		The second part of the Mahavamsa (also known as the Culavamsa in modern times) dealing with the reigns of King Dhatusena and his sons Kassapa 1 and Moggalana 1 was compiled, no doubt from earlier source material, by the thera Dhammakitti, probably in Polonnaruwa, in the 13th century.
		Furthermore, the author of the relevant Mahavamsa belonged to the Mahavihara which had by this time suppressed its rival sects and evidently did not consider Kassapa I, the parricide, as a favourite patron of the Theravada Buddhist tradition which was centred in the Mahavihara.
	www.lankalibrary.com /arch/maha.htm (5976 words)

	LankaWeb News
		In the Mahavamsa, or in the ancient Pali, Sanskrit or Tamil literature for that matter, the Nagas are never represented as human beings, but as a class of super natural beings or non-human beings who inhabited a subterranean world, whose normal form was that of serpents, but who would assume any form at will.
		Therefore this legend in the Mahavamsa cannot be taken as evidence for the existence of a Tamil kingdom, not even the existence of a settled Tamil population in the Jaffna peninsula from very early times.
		According to the Mahavamsa (XXXVI.9,36) Kanittha Tissa(167-186) during his reign at Anuradhapura repaired the cetiyaghara of the Tissamaha Vihara in the Jaffna peninsula and king Voharaka Tissa (209-231) during his reign effected improvements to that Vihara.
	www.lankaweb.com /news/items04/081104-1.html (2693 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Mahavamsa is the chronical of the Mahavihara, Anuradhapura the headquarters of the Theravada Sect.
		Both the Mahavamsa tradition and Geiger's computation are based on a fact taken from the Mahavamsa, namely that Asoka ascended the throne 218 years after the Buddha.
		Zoysa wrote "According to Mahavamsa Buddhist Era, the finest historical absurdity is that Alexander had invaded India during King Asoka's reign, whereas it occurred half a century earlier during the reign of Chandra Gupta.
	www.buddhistnews.tv /current/bud-era-180303.php (817 words)

	Please title this page. (tradhm4.htm in geo1)
		The Mahavamsa makes a vain attempt to ignore the nature of political foundations and divisions that made up the kingdoms as its political objective is to provide credence to the hegemonistic idea of a Buddhist unitary state on the whole island.
		Though authors of Mahavamsa are at pains to portray the lineage after Vijaya reverting to his country of origin, the naIlle Pandu that is found in the names of subsequent rulers cannot be disassociated from the Pandyan Kingdom.
		Mahavamsa attributes Pandugabaya the credit for establishing the village boundaries but says nothing of the boundaries of the principalities.
	www.sangam.org /BOOKS/Book-Arudpragasam/Chapter-2.htm (4096 words)

	An Early History of Sri Lanka - Welcome to Sri Lanka by Ari Withanage
		Buddhist monks composed the Mahavamsa, which was an adaptation of an earlier and cruder fourth century epic, the Dipavamsa (Island Genealogy or Dynasty).
		In the Mahavamsa, Vijaya is described as having arrived on the island on the day of the Buddha's death (parinibbana) or, more precisely, his nirvana or nibbana (see Glossary), his release from the cycle of life and pain.
		Arasaratnam suggests the conflict recorded in the Mahavamsa marked the beginning of Sinhalese nationalism and that Dutthagamani's victory is commonly interpreted as a confirmation that the island was a preserve for the Sinhalese and Buddhism.
	www.angelfire.com /wi/SriLanka/early_history.htm (3251 words)

	Mahâvamsa und Tradition/Ideologie
		According to the Mahavamsa and the ancient Pali Commentaries, the passing away of the Buddha, and the landing in Lanka of Vijaya, the founder of the Sinhalese race, took place on one and the same day.
		While legends and myths of the Mahavamsa formed the basis of Sinhala nationalism, the present nationalism is also due to the considerable influence wielded by European thought in the 19th and 20th centuries.
		The explosive power of the "Mahavamsa Mindset", however, was not immediately grasped by the Sinhalese elite who assumed political power on the departure of the British (the last of the colonial rulers) ending a 450-year old occupation of the Island by various European powers.
	www.payer.de /mahavamsa/chronik002.htm (17920 words)

	Dipavamsa and Mahavamsa
		Although the Mahavamsa mentions the names of those who came to the island along with Arhat Maha Mahinda, it does not refer to those who came along with the Theri Sanghamitta carrying the Bo-sapling from India.
		According to the account found in the chronicles Dipavamsa and Mahavamsa, the earliest period to which reference is made deals with the time of the Buddha Kakusanda, the first of the Buddhas belonging to the maha Bhadra Kalpa, during which five Buddhas appear to relieve mankind from the evils of suffering.
		According to Mahavamsa, the monastic institution next in importance to the Mahavihara of the Theravada tradition is the Abhayagiri Vihara built by king Vatta-gamani Abhaya (AD 78-88).
	members.tripod.com /~hettiarachchi/dipa.html (2103 words)

	Pandya Rule at the Beginning of Ancient Lankan History
		According to the Mahavamsa, he wanted to marry into a royal family and sent pearls and gems to the Pandya king to ask for a princess for himself and women for his followers.
		According to the Mahavamsa, Vijaya sent a message to his brother king in Bengal to come and take over the kinship of Lanka and the latter sent one of his sons.
		According to the Mahavamsa, he was the first king to build an irrigation work which was named in the Mahavamsa as a kulama, a Tamil word.
	www.tamilnation.org /forum/velupillai/pandyan.htm (4116 words)

	In Defense of Dharma (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Regarding the Mahavamsa, since the 1980s scholarship on Sri Lanka has focused upon the Mahavamsa as the text that lays the foundation for the Sinhala people's claim to be the preservers of Buddhism.
		In recounting this episode, the author of the Mahavamsa then adds that, eventually, after the death of the Buddha, a collarbone of the Conqueror is brought to Sri Lanka; it is placed in the same reliquary as the Buddha's gifted hair, and the reliquary itself is fortified.
		To return to the scene of the Mahavamsa that our Bauddha Peramuna monk recalled in his critique of Bandaranaike, we see Dutugemunu, after his war with the damilas, looking "back upon his glorious victory, great though it was, [he] knew no joy, remembering that thereby was wrought the destruction of millions [of beings]" [xxv.101-104].
	www.buddhistinformation.com /in_defense_of_dharma.htm (4047 words)

	The Lanka Academic :: View topic - Mahavamsa: Does it need reappraisal? - D. G. B. de Silva
		But the Mahavamsa and its historical tradition is being assailed as chauvinist except when it could be quoted advantageously for the Tamil cause.
		If he wants to say Mahavamsa is an accuate portrayal of Sri lankan history, we have to wait for other neutral historians for their analyses.
		Those who want to reduce the Mahavamsa to a myth, resort to sections of the chronicle that are obviously dubious of nature, to justify their claim.
	www.slnet.org /forum/viewtopic.php?t=369 (8163 words)

	Reflections on the Buddha and the myth of the Sinhala Buddhist origin.
		Therefore, it is necessary to study critically the Mahavamsa as a source of Lankan history to understand the ethnic conflict between the Sinhalas and the Tamils.
		The earliest portion of the Mahavamsa (only this portion of the long chronicle is referred to as the Mahavamsa by some scholars; they refer to the subsequent portion as the Culavamsa) was composed by Mahanama, a Buddhist monk in the sixth century ACE.
		This portion of the Mahavamsa tries to trace the beginnings of Sinhala Buddhism from the sixth century BCE to the end of Mahasena’s reign in the fourth century ACE.
	www.tamilnation.org /forum/velupillai/buddha.htm (3151 words)

	Mahavamsa
		Mahavamsa, The Great Chronicle of of Ceylon has long been the window into Sri Lanka's Past.
		The Mahavamsa is generous enough to credit Kasyapa with building Sigiriya.
		Even if we were to believe the the Mahavamsa version of History, Dhatusena is the king who ordered a monk to buried alive when building the Kala-wewa, and had his own sister burned at the stake.
	www.saadhu.com /pen/mahavamsa.html (346 words)

	Economy and politics of ancient Rajarata
		The Mahavamsa declares Thammannawa as the island's first capital and is speculated to have been located by the Malvatu river in the northwest.
		Taxes were initially paid with the produce of the land or with labour but the necessity for the use of currency may have arisen once the foreign traders appeared on the Sri Lankan radar screen.
		The Mahavamsa mentions Sena and Guththika arriving from India for horse-trading while Rasavahini mentions Dutugemunu's army general Velusumana having a "Saindhavi" horse, a breed of the Indus (Sindhu) Valley.
	wanni.org /rajarata.htm (1969 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Mahavamsa: The Great Chronicle of Sri Lanka: Books: Douglas Bullis,Mahanama (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Mahavamsa is the epic tale of Sri Lanka's founding and early history.
		It is the least known of all the world's great chronicles, and much less familiar than its Subcontinent forebears, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata.
		This edition contains the text of the Mahavamsa, plus numerous explanatory notes and commentaries that paint a broad picture of the era in which Mahavamsa was written.
	www.amazon.ca /Mahavamsa-Great-Chronicle-Sri-Lanka/dp/0895819430 (339 words)

	Mahavamsa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The revised English translation is now available on the World wide web.
		The Mahavamsa - The Great Chronicle of Sri Lanka
		"Concise Mahavamsa" on-line version of: Ruwan Rajapakse, P.E. Concise Mahavamsa: History of Buddhism in Sri Lanka.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mahavamsa (328 words)

	Mahavamsa - 00
		The official translation of the Mahavamsa from Pali was completed by Wilhelm Geiger in 1912 and subsequently the Culavamsa in 1930.
		To further aid your reading of the Mahavamsa, I have included many supplements including: a geneology of kings, an index of battles and wars mentioned in the Mahavamsa, a list of sovereigns from Vijaya to Mahasena with corresponding links, and a list of Pali words that occur in the text.
		Early in 1908 the Government of Ceylon was contemplating a new and revised edition of Turner's translation of the Mahavamsa, published in 1837 and reprinted in L. Wijesinha's Mahavamsa published in 1889, and were in correspondence on the subject with the Ceylon Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society.
	www.zencomp.com /greatwisdom/ebud/mahavamsa/index.htm (1206 words)

	Selected Writings Chapter 2
		Although the Mahavamsa is in fact a mere elaboration of the Dipavamsa, the priestly author of Mahavamsa appears to have used his imagination to make Duttugemunu the Saviour of Buddhism in the island, realising that the greatest
		The Mahavamsa emphasizes Elara’s tolerance and the great respect he showed towards Buddhism, its places of worship and its priesthood by describing the action taken by the king, when accidentally the yoke of the wagon in which he was traveling had caused some minor damage to a Thupa.
		The author of the Mahavamsa, without doing any violence to the character of Elara as represented in the earlier Chronicle, the Dipavamsa, guilds his hero, Duttugemunu with a fabulous account of a long and glorious campaign against the Tamil king – a campaign about which the Dipavamsa was unaware.
	members.cox.net /wgunasegaram/CH4.htm (1986 words)

	Arya Chakravarties of Tamil Eelam
		In common with the ancient civilisations of the world, the legendary era of Ceylon is a transitional phase, a link between the unchronicled and the historic ages.
		The Mahavamsa speaks of a strong Naga factor distributed in the different parts of Ceylon particularly significant in the North and South-west, ruled over by a line of Naga kings, with offshoots of the Naga over the North-west.
		The first visit of the Buddha was to the wild region of North Central Ceylon, corresponding to the modern Mahiyangana, a stronghold of the ancient Yakkas and Nagas.
	www.tamilnation.org /heritage/aryachakravarties.htm (6327 words)

	Soka Gakkai Dictionary of Buddhism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Written in Pali verse style, the Mahavamsa is at once a chronological record of dynastic succession in Sri Lanka and a Buddhist history.
		The Chulavamsa ("The Little Chronicle") is a sequel to the Mahavamsa, continuing the history of Sri Lanka to the nineteenth century.
		The name Mahavamsa is often applied to the original Mahavamsa together with its sequel, Chulavamsa.
	www.sgi-usa.org /buddhism/dictionary/define?tid=1506 (161 words)

	EelamWeb© - publication (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Mahavamsa has nothing to do wlth a genuinely Buddhist culture.
		such a tragedy was to burn all the copies of the Mahavamsa..
		Mahavamsa view that the Tamils are "aliens" and "invaders" have
	www.eelamweb.com /publication/broken_promises/bp1.shtml (1232 words)

	Prabha`s response tomorrow will be crucial : Sri Lanka News
		I have never criticised Mahavamsa, but have been utterly critical of those who draw inspirations from it to feed their bigoted ideology; I am afraid that you are an exemplification of such people!
		People like you, who draw inspirations from Mahavamsa, are responsible for the death of over 65,000 people; so, I am entitled to talk about Mahavamsa.
		People like you, who drew inspirations from Mahavamsa, have been hampering the relief efforts of the Tsunami affected victims within the North and East; so, I am entitled to talk about Mahavamsa.
	www.lankanewspapers.com /news/2005/11/4625_22.html?CH11137099362859EN1 (584 words)

	Selected Writings Chapter 2
		Abhaya, Pandukabhaya – originate from the legends of the Mahabharata; ‘these stories have been considerably transformed by the author of the Mahavamsa by drawing on and imitating legends in other Jatakas as well as stories current in Ceylon such as that of Vijaya and Kuveni.
		While Dr. Mendis has taken great pains to support a statement recently made by a Civil Servant in the Census report against Geiger, the official Translator of the Mahavamsa, he ignores the studied opinion of a Sinhalese scholar and historian, Mudaliyar W. Gunawardhana, who had unequivocally exposed the fallacies involved in such an inference.
		Devanampiya Tissa was the son of Muttasiva – a descendant of Panduvasa (Panduvasudeva of the Mahavamsa), and was obviously a Saivite, before his conversion to Buddhism.
	members.cox.net /wgunasegaram/ch2.htm (6954 words)

	Mahavamsa - Abhidhamma Vipassana (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Still whenever I hear of a wise person taking difficult duty I am happy as I believe it is for the betterment of the society; otherwise only buffoons and ruffians will become presidents, generals, diplomats and police.
		The Mahavamsa is not part of the Tipitaka but is a chronicle of Kings and the Sangha, and of immense value, I believe.
		The arahants knew that this king would do much for the Sangha and wanted to help him out of his depression (BTW I checked; this wasn't on his deathbed as I thought).
	www.abhidhamma.org /forums/index.php?showtopic=26 (1012 words)

	Bodhi-Pūjā = Verehrung des Bodhibaums
		According to the Mahavamsa, King Pandukabhaya (4th century B.C.) fixed a banyan tree near the western gate of Anuradhapura as the abode of Vessavana, the god of wealth and the regent of the North as well as the king of the yakkhas.
		It is said that the rulers of Sri Lanka performed ceremonies in the tree's honour in every twelfth year of their reign (Mhv.
		It is recorded that forty Bodhi-saplings that grew from the seeds of the original Bodhi-tree at Anuradhapura were planted at various places in the island during the time of Devanampiya Tissa himself.
	www.payer.de /mahavamsa/chronik19e1.htm (8208 words)

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