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Anomadassī3

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斯里蘭卡的一位僧王,應其請託而撰成《Hatthavanagalla-Vihāra-Vaṃsa》,本人也是一部僧伽羅占星著作的作者。

A Saṅgharāja of Sri Lanka, at whose request the Hatthavanagalla-Vihāra-Vaṃsa was written (D’Alwis’ edition, p.7, n.6). He was the author of a Sinhalese work on astrology, the Daivajña-kāma-dhenu, and he is generally identified with the elder for whom, according to the Cūlavaṃsa (lxxxviii. vv.37-9; see also P.L.C., 219), Patirājadeva, minister to Parakkamabāhu II, built in Hatthavanaggalla, following the king’s orders, a temple of three storeys and a lofty pinnacle.

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