Pāli Dictionary

Bhātiyavaṅka-vihāra

Place

ドゥッタガーマニー治世下でマハーナーガという僧が住持を務めたスリランカの僧院で、そこのある僧が、大塔の建立に関わって天界に生まれ変わった神々が大塔で礼拝しているのを目撃した。

A monastery in Sri Lanka. A monk of the monastery, who once went to worship at the Mahā Thūpa, saw there some devatās also worshipping; they had been born in heaven as a result of having participated in the building of the thūpa (Mhv.xxx.46 f).

In the time of Duṭṭhagāmaṇī, the chief incumbent of the vihāra was Mahānāga. MT. 606.

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