THE MAHAVAMSA

THE MAHAVAMSA  The Great Chronicle of Lanka from 6th Century BC to 4th Century AD Translated from Pali by Wilhelm

THE MAHAVAMSA – CHAPTER 1: THE VISIT OF THE TATHAGATA HAVING made obeisance to the Sambuddha the pure, sprung of

THE MAHAVAMSA – CHAPTER 2: THE RACE OF MAHASAMMATA SPRUNG of the race of king Mahasammata was the Great Sage.

THE MAHAVAMSA – CHAPTER 3: THE FIRST COUNCIL WHEN the Conqueror the incomparable, he who has the five eyes,’ had

THE MAHAVAMSA – CHAPTER 4: THE SECOND COUNCIL WHEN Ajatasattu’s son Udayabhaddaka had slain him he, the traitor, reigned sixteen

THE MAHAVAMSA – CHAPTER 5: THE THIRD COUNCIL THAT redaction of the true dhamma, which was arranged at the beginning

THE MAHAVAMSA – CHAPTER 6: THE COMING OF VIJAYA IN the country of the Vangas in the Vanga capital there

THE MAHAVAMSA – CHAPTER 7: THE CONSECRATING OF VIJAYA WHEN the Guide of the World, having aecomplished the salvation of

THE MAHAVAMSA – CHAPTER 8: THE CONSECRATING OF PANDUVASUDEVA THE great king Vijaya, being in the last year (of his

THE MAHAVAMSA – CHAPTER 9: THE CONSECRATING OF ABHAYA THE queen bore ten sons and one daughter: the eldest of

THE MAHAVAMSA – CHAPTER 10: THE CONSECRATING OF PANDUKABHAYA (As) commanded by Ummadacitta the serving-woman took the boy, laid him

THE MAHAVAMSA – CHAPTER 11: THE CONSECRATING OF DEVANAMPIYATISSA AFTER his death his son, known by the name of MUTASIVA,

THE MAHAVAMSA – CHAPTER 12: THE CONVERTING OF DIFFERENT COUNTRIES WHEN the thera Moggaliputta, the illuminator of the religion of

THE MAHAVAMSA – CHAPTER 13: THE COMING OF MAHINDA THE great thera Mahinda, of lofty wisdom, who at that time

THE MAHAVAMSA – CHAPTER 14: THE ENTRY INTO THE CAPITAL THE king Devanampiyatissa who had arranged a waterfestival for the

THE MAHAVAMSA – CHAPTER 15: THE ACCEPTANCE OF THE MAHAVIHARA WHEN they saw that the elephant’s hail was also too