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Kaniṭṭha-Tissa

Person

King of Sri Lanka (227–245 CE), younger brother of Bhātikatissa, remembered for extensive religious building works including the Ratanapāsāda at Abhayagiri and cetiyas and monasteries across the island.

King of Sri Lanka (227-245 A.D.). He was the younger brother of Bhātikatissa. He built the Ratanapāsāda at Abhayagiri for Mahānāga of Bhūtārama, and he also built at Abhayagiri a wall, a great pariveṇa, and the Maṇisoma-vihāra. He built a cetiya at Ambatthala, restored the temple at Nāgadipa, and made the Kukkuṭagiri cells. Among his other works were fourteen pāsādas at the Mahāvihāra, a road to the Dakkhiṇa-vihāra, the Bhūtārāma-vihāra, the Rāmagonaka, the Nandatissa monastery, the Anulatissapabbata-vihāra, the Niyelatissārāma, the Pīlapiṭṭhi-vihāra, and the Rājamahā-vihāra.

He had two sons, Khujjanāga and Kuñcanāga (q.v.) Mhv.xxxvi.6 ff.

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