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  2. Mahāvaṃsa - Wikipedia

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    The Mahavamsa is believed to have originated from an earlier chronicle known as the Dipavamsa (4th century CE; lit. ' Island Chronicles '). The Dipavamsa is much simpler and contains less information than the Mahavamsa and probably served as the nucleus of an oral tradition that was eventually incorporated into the written Mahavamsa.

  3. Kamta Prasad Guru - Wikipedia

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    Kamta Prasad Guru (1875 – 16 November 1947) was an expert on grammar of Hindi language. He was the author of the book Hindi vyakarana. He was born in Sagar, which is today in Madhya Pradesh state in India. His Hindi grammar book has been translated into many foreign languages. Kamta Prasad Guru died in Jabalpur.

  4. Dīpavaṃsa - Wikipedia

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    Regarding the Vijaya legend, Dipavamsa has tried to be less super-natural than the later work, Mahavamsa, in referring to the husband of the Kalinga princess, ancestor of Vijaya, as a man named Sinha who was an outlaw that attacked caravans en route. In the meantime, Sinha-bahu and Sinhasivali, as king and queen of the kingdom of Lala (Lata ...

  5. Vaṃsa - Wikipedia

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    [1] [7] According to Geiger, the Mahavamsa is likely based on Dipavamsa, these chronicles are of doubtful reliability. [8] The Dāthāvaṃsa is the chronicle of the Buddha's tooth relic until the 9th-century CE. The Thūpavaṃsa is the purported legendary chronicle of the great stupa in Sri Lanka, mostly ahistorical stories from the 1st ...

  6. Cūḷavaṃsa - Wikipedia

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    But unlike the Mahavamsa it was written by different authors at different periods. The Cūḷavaṃsa is divided into two parts. The first part, chapters thirty-seven to seventy-nine, begins with the 4th century arrival of a tooth relic of Siddhartha Gautama to Sri Lanka and continues to the reign of Parakramabahu the Great (1153–1186) in the ...

  7. Thūpavaṃsa - Wikipedia

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    The Thupavamsa follows the structure of the Mahavamsa and other Pali chronicles- it begins with the story of past Buddhas, describes the life of Buddha Shakyamuni, Ashoka's missions, and the arrival of various Buddha relics and a sapling of the Bodhi tree in Sri Lanka. [3] It was composed in Sanskritized Pali typical of the era in Sri Lanka. [3]

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  9. Mother of Ashoka - Wikipedia

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    According to the Mahavamsa-tika, Ashoka's mother Dhamma [9] belonged to the Moriya Kshatriya clan. [ 3 ] According to the 2nd century historian Appian , Ashoka's grandfather Chandragupta entered into a marital alliance with the Greek king Seleucus I Nicator , which has led to speculation that Ashoka's father Bindusara (or Chandragupta himself ...