Pāli Dictionary

Dhūmarakkha

Place

斯里蘭卡的一座山,般度迦婆耶王曾在此擊敗其諸叔並擒獲夜叉柴提耶,後被認定即今日所稱的「炮手岬」。

A mountain in Sri Lanka, not far from Kacchakatittha, on the right bank of the Mahāvālukagaṅga. There Paṇḍukābhaya defeated his uncles and occupied their fortified camp for two years. The mountain was the abode of yakkhas, and it was here that Paṇḍukābhaya captured the Yakkhiṇī Cetiyā, near the pond Tumbariyaṅgana in the vicinity of the mountain (Mhv.x.46, 53, 58 ff). King Mahānāma built a vihāra there (Cv.xxxvii.213).

According to the Mahāvaṃsa Ṭīkā (p.289), the mountain was also called Udumabarapabbata (°giri). There seems (See P.L.C., s.v. Udumbaragiri) to have lived at Udumbaragiri a fraternity of forest-dwelling monks who produced from among their number several scholars of great repute and monks of great piety — e.g., Kassapa and Medhaṅkara.

The mountain is identified (Ep. Zey.ii.194 ff) with the present “Gunners’ Quoin” on the right bank of the Mahāvaligaṅga.

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