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><channel><title>THE MAHAVAMSA &#187; original_1</title> <atom:link href="http://mahavamsa.org/category/mahavamsa/original-mahavamsa/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://mahavamsa.org</link> <description>The Great Chronicle of Sri Lanka</description> <lastBuildDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 11:50:28 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1</generator> <item><title>19: The Coming of the Bodhi-Tree</title><link>http://mahavamsa.org/2008/05/19-coming-bodhi-tree/</link> <comments>http://mahavamsa.org/2008/05/19-coming-bodhi-tree/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 08:27:23 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>bawa</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[original_1]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Bodhi]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Bodhitree]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Dhammasoka]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mahinda]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Samghamitta]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://mahavamsa.org/?p=86</guid> <description><![CDATA[WHEN the lord of chariots had appointed to watch over the Bodhi-tree eighteen persons[1] from royal families and eight from families of ministers, and moreover eight persons from brahman families and eight from families of traders and persons from the cowherds likewise, and from the hyena and sparrowhawk-clans,[2] (from each one man), and also from [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://mahavamsa.org/2008/05/19-coming-bodhi-tree/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>18: The Receiving of the Great Bodhi-Tree</title><link>http://mahavamsa.org/2008/05/18-receiving-great-bodhi-tree/</link> <comments>http://mahavamsa.org/2008/05/18-receiving-great-bodhi-tree/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 08:26:29 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>bawa</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[original_1]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Dhammasoka]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sanghamitta]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://mahavamsa.org/?p=85</guid> <description><![CDATA[THE monarch remembered the word spoken by the thera, that he should send for the great Bodhi-tree and the theri, and when, on a certain day during the rain-season, he was sitting in his own city with the thera and had taken counsel with his ministers he entrusted his own nephew, his minister named Arittha, [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://mahavamsa.org/2008/05/18-receiving-great-bodhi-tree/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>17: The Arrival of the Relics</title><link>http://mahavamsa.org/2008/05/17-arrival-relics/</link> <comments>http://mahavamsa.org/2008/05/17-arrival-relics/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 08:25:23 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>bawa</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[original_1]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Dhammasoka]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Thuparama]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://mahavamsa.org/?p=84</guid> <description><![CDATA[WHEN the great thera of lofty wisdom, after spending the rain-season (thus), had held the pavarana-ceremony,[1] on the full-moon day of the month Kattika,[2] he spoke thus to the king: &#8216;Long is the time, O lord of men, since we have seen the Sambuddha. We lived a life without a master. There is nothing here [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://mahavamsa.org/2008/05/17-arrival-relics/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>16: The Acceptance of the Cetiyapabbata Vihara</title><link>http://mahavamsa.org/2008/05/16-acceptance-cetiyapabbata-vihara/</link> <comments>http://mahavamsa.org/2008/05/16-acceptance-cetiyapabbata-vihara/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 08:24:36 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>bawa</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[original_1]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Cetiyapabbata]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://mahavamsa.org/?p=83</guid> <description><![CDATA[Going into the city for alms and showing favour to the people (by preaching); eating in the king’s house and showing favour to the king (by preaching) the thera dwelt twenty-six days in the Mahamegha-grove. But when, on the thirteenth day of the bright half of the month Asalha[1], the lofty-souled (thera) had eaten in [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://mahavamsa.org/2008/05/16-acceptance-cetiyapabbata-vihara/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>15: The Acceptance of The Mahavihara</title><link>http://mahavamsa.org/2008/05/15-acceptance-mahavihara/</link> <comments>http://mahavamsa.org/2008/05/15-acceptance-mahavihara/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 08:22:33 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>bawa</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[original_1]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Kakusandha]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mahavihara]]></category> <category><![CDATA[udumbara]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://mahavamsa.org/?p=82</guid> <description><![CDATA[WHEN they saw that the elephant’s hall was also too small, the people who had assembled there, full of pious zeal, prepared seats for the theras outside the southern gate, in the pleasant Nandana-garden[1] in the royal park, thickly shaded, cool and covered with verdure. The thera went forth by the south gate and seated [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://mahavamsa.org/2008/05/15-acceptance-mahavihara/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>14: The Entry into the Capital</title><link>http://mahavamsa.org/2008/05/14-entry-capital/</link> <comments>http://mahavamsa.org/2008/05/14-entry-capital/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 08:21:31 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>bawa</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[original_1]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Devanampiyatissa]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Jambudipa]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://mahavamsa.org/?p=81</guid> <description><![CDATA[THE king Devanampiyatissa who had arranged a waterfestival for the dwellers in the capital, set forth to enjoy the pleasures of the chase. Attended by forty thousand of his men he went on foot to the Missaka-mountain. The deva of the mountain who desired to show the theras to him, appeared there in the form [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://mahavamsa.org/2008/05/14-entry-capital/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>13: The Coming of Mahinda</title><link>http://mahavamsa.org/2008/05/13-coming-mahinda/</link> <comments>http://mahavamsa.org/2008/05/13-coming-mahinda/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 08:20:43 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>bawa</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[original_1]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Devanampiyatissa]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mahinda]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Samghamitta]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://mahavamsa.org/?p=80</guid> <description><![CDATA[THE great thera Mahinda, of lofty wisdom, who at that time had been twelve years (a monk), charged by his teacher and by the brotherhood to convert the island of Lanka, pondered on the fitting time (for this) and thought: &#8216;Old is the king Mutasiva; his son must become king.&#8217; When he had resolved to [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://mahavamsa.org/2008/05/13-coming-mahinda/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>12: The Converting of Different Countries</title><link>http://mahavamsa.org/2008/05/12-converting-countries/</link> <comments>http://mahavamsa.org/2008/05/12-converting-countries/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 08:20:02 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>bawa</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[original_1]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mahinda]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Moggaliputta]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://mahavamsa.org/?p=79</guid> <description><![CDATA[WHEN the thera Moggaliputta, the illuminator of the religion of the Conqueror, had brought the (third) council to an end and when, looking into the future, he had beheld the founding of the religion in adjacent countries, (then) in the month Kattika[1] he sent forth theras, one here and one there. The thera Majjhantika he [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://mahavamsa.org/2008/05/12-converting-countries/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>11: The Consecrating of Devanampiyatissa</title><link>http://mahavamsa.org/2008/05/11-consecrating-devanampiya-tissa/</link> <comments>http://mahavamsa.org/2008/05/11-consecrating-devanampiya-tissa/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 08:18:30 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>bawa</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[original_1]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Devanampiyatissa]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mutasiva]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Suvannapali]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://mahavamsa.org/?p=78</guid> <description><![CDATA[ AFTER his death his son, known by the name of MUTASIVA, the son of Suvannapali (Suvannapälï), succeeded him in the government, which was (then) in a peaceful state. The king laid out the beautiful Mahameghavana-garden, rich in all the good qualities that its name promises[1] and provided with fruit-trees and flowering-trees. At the time that [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://mahavamsa.org/2008/05/11-consecrating-devanampiya-tissa/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>10: The Consecrating of Pandukabhaya</title><link>http://mahavamsa.org/2008/05/10-consecrating-pandukabhaya/</link> <comments>http://mahavamsa.org/2008/05/10-consecrating-pandukabhaya/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 08:17:29 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>bawa</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[original_1]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Pandukabhaya]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Suvannapali]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://mahavamsa.org/?p=77</guid> <description><![CDATA[(As) commanded by Ummadacitta the serving-woman took the boy, laid him in a basket and went with him to Dvaramandalaka.[1] When the princes, who had gone a-hunting in the Tumbara forest saw the serving woman they asked her: `Where art thou going? What is that?’ She answered: `I am going to Dvramandalaka; that is a [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://mahavamsa.org/2008/05/10-consecrating-pandukabhaya/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> </channel> </rss>