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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.
[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 ...
It consists of twelve chapters, and ends with a list of locations where saplings from the Bodhi tree were planted. [4] This list matches those included in the Samantapasadika of Buddhaghosa and the Mahavamsa. [4] According to its introduction, the Mahabodhivamsa is an adaptation of a previously existing work in Sinhalese on the same subject. [1]
The Mahavamsa historical chronicle states that King Aggabodhi I assigned a hundred of his relatives to be aramikas. Some of the people belonging to this caste still attend to the duties assigned to the Jaya Sri Maha Bodhi holy tree to this day.
The Mahavamsa also refers briefly to the writing down of the canon and the commentaries at this time. This chronology which places Vattagamani's second reign in 29–17 BC was originally devised in 1912 by Wilhelm Geiger in the preface to his translation of the Mahavamsa. [ 9 ]
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 ...
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]
According to the chronicle Mahavamsa the men were drafted into Royal service during the reign of Dutugemunu's father, King Kavantissa. The Rajavaliya asserts that the ten warriors had remained impartial throughout Dutugemunu's battles with his younger brother Tissa , as they had promised King Kavantissa that they would remain impartial in the ...