Pāli Dictionary

Hatthadāṭha2

Person

ウンハナガラ出身の男で、国外から召還され、簒奪者ポッタクッタによってスリランカ王に立てられたが、在位わずか六か月で殺害された。

A native of Uṇhanagara. He was summoned to Sri Lanka by the Damiḷa Potthakuṭṭha and consecrated king (676 A.C.). He built the meditation hall (padhānaghara) in Kāladīghāvika and died after a reign of only six months, killed by the soldiers of Mānavamma. Cv.xlvi.45; xlvii.57; see also Cv. Trs.i.102, n.3.

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