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Parts of it were translated, retold, and absorbed into other languages. An extended version of the Mahavamsa, which gives many more details, has also been found in Southeast Asia. [11] [19] The Mahavamsa gave rise to many other Pali chronicles, making Sri Lanka of that period probably the world's leading center in Pali literature.
It's an interesting point, but Levman's article isn't discussing the Mahavamsa so I think it would be getting into WP:OR to cite him. His source regarding Sakya marriage customs seems to be the Dictionary of Pali Proper Names, which is relating stories from the Theravada commentaries- which themselves were also written down and probably ...
The Mahavamsa and Dipavamsa identify the prince as Vijaya, and the other two legends have different names for the prince. [2] Mahavamsa: In this version, Vijaya's grandmother is a princess whose ancestry traces to the Vanga and Kalinga kingdoms (present-day Bengal and Odisha). She bears two children with Sinha ("lion"), who keeps them in ...
According to the Mahavamsa, Tissa, who was thoroughly proficient, at a young age was sought after by the Buddhist monks Siggava and Candavajji for conversion, as they went on their daily alms round. At the age of seven, Tissa was angered when Siggava, a Buddhist monk, occupied his seat in his house and berated him.
[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 ...
[7] [35] Some Buddhist texts mention that an Ajivika astrologer or priest at Bindusara's court prophesied the future greatness of the prince Ashoka. [38] The Pamsupradanavadana (part of Divyavadana) names this man as Pingalavatsa. [39] The Vamsatthappakasini (the Mahavamsa commentary) names this man as Janasana, based on a commentary on ...
The Mahavamsa mentions an early friendship with Ashoka. Chapter IX of the chronicle mentions that "the two monarchs, Devanampiyatissa and Dharmasoka, already had been friends a long time, though they had never seen each other", Dharmasoka being an alternate name for Ashoka .
The Dipavamsa is considered "source material" to the Mahavamsa. The latter is more coherently organized and is probably the greatest religious and historical epic in the Pali language. The historiography (i.e., the chronology of kings, battles etc.) given in the Mahavamsa, and to that extent in the Dipavasma, are believed to be largely correct ...