The Mahavamsa
The Great Chronicle of Sri Lanka
Composed in the late 5th or early 6th Century CE, by Ven. Mahanama Thera.
This translation is by Wilhelm Geiger (1912).
- I - The Visit of the Tathagata
- II - The Race of Mahasammata
- III - The First Council
- IV - The Second Council
- V - The Third Council
- VI - The Coming of Vijaya
- VII - The Consecrating of Vijaya
- VIII - The Consecrating of Panduvasudeva
- IX - The Consecrating of Abhaya
- X - The Consecrating of Pandukabhaya
- XI - The Consecrating of Devanampiya Tissa
- XII - The Converting of Different Countries
- XIII - The Coming of Mahinda
- XIV - The Entry into the Capital
- XV - The Acceptance of the Maha Vihara
- XVI - The Acceptance of the Cetiyapabbata-Vihara
- XVII - The Arrival of the Relics
- XVIII - The Recieving of the Great Bodhi-tree
- XIX - The Coming of the Bodhi Tree
- XX - The Nibbana of the Thera
- XXI - The Five Kings
- XXII - The Birth of Prince Gamani
- XXIII - The Levying of the Warriors
- XXIV - The War of the Two Brothers
- XXV - The Victory of Duttha Gamani
- XXVI - The Consecrating of Maricavatti-vihara
- XXVII - The Consecrating of the Lohapasada
- XXVIII - The Obtaining of the Wherewithal to build the Great Thupa
- XXIX - The Beginning of the Great Thupa
- XXX - The Making of the Relic Chamber
- XXXI - The Enshrining of the Relics
- XXXII - The Entrance to the Tusita-Heaven
- XXXIII - The Ten Kings
- XXXIV - The Eleven Kings
- XXXV - The Twelve Kings
- XXXVI - The Thirteen Kings
- XXXVII - King Mahasena
Source: These Mahavamsa texts are revised versions of those originally hosted by Rhajiv Ratnatunga at Lakdiva.org.
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