The Mahávan̥sa, Part II.: Containing Chapters XXXIX. to C. |
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Page 37
... Lanká , and being specially commissioned by their mother ( Susímá ) , they repaired hither , leaving one brother ( Gámaṇi with their parents ) . Those who had thus arrived , having been presented to Paṇḍuvásadéva , the sovereign of ...
... Lanká , and being specially commissioned by their mother ( Susímá ) , they repaired hither , leaving one brother ( Gámaṇi with their parents ) . Those who had thus arrived , having been presented to Paṇḍuvásadéva , the sovereign of ...
Page 38
... Lanká , Paṇḍuvásadéva , reigned thirty years , dying at the period of the birth of Panḍukábhaya . At the demise of this sovereign , the sons of that monarch shaving assembled , they installed her ( Citta's ) brother Abhaya , who had ...
... Lanká , Paṇḍuvásadéva , reigned thirty years , dying at the period of the birth of Panḍukábhaya . At the demise of this sovereign , the sons of that monarch shaving assembled , they installed her ( Citta's ) brother Abhaya , who had ...
Page 44
... Lanká , in the twelfth year of his reign , fixed the boundaries of the villages in all parts of Laņká . This monarch befriending the interests of the yakkas , with the co - opera- tion of Kálavela and Citta , who had the power ( though ...
... Lanká , in the twelfth year of his reign , fixed the boundaries of the villages in all parts of Laņká . This monarch befriending the interests of the yakkas , with the co - opera- tion of Kálavela and Citta , who had the power ( though ...
Page 46
... Lanká : on them the sovereign of Lanká conferred great favours . These envoys ' revering him as if he had been their own sovereign , having delivered to the monarch of Lagká - who had already been inaugurated on the first day of the ...
... Lanká : on them the sovereign of Lanká conferred great favours . These envoys ' revering him as if he had been their own sovereign , having delivered to the monarch of Lagká - who had already been inaugurated on the first day of the ...
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... Lanká . The fifteenth chapter in the Mahávansa , entitled " The Acceptance of the Mahavihára , " composed equally for the delight and affliction of righteous men . CHAPTER XVI . HAVING made his alms - pilgrimage through the city ...
... Lanká . The fifteenth chapter in the Mahávansa , entitled " The Acceptance of the Mahavihára , " composed equally for the delight and affliction of righteous men . CHAPTER XVI . HAVING made his alms - pilgrimage through the city ...
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