Pāli Dictionary

Puṅkhagāma

Place

Un village du Dakkhiṇadesa à Sri Lanka où Mānābharaṇa vécut autrefois sous un autre nom et où naquit Parakkamabāhu Ier, qui érigea plus tard un monument imposant sur le site de sa maison natale.

A village in the Dakkhiṇadesa of Sri Lanka, where Mānābharaṇa lived under the name of Virabāhu (Cv.lxi.26) and where Parakkamabāhu I was born (Ibid., lxxii.18). Parakkamabāhu subsequently erected there the Sūtigharacetiya, one hundred and eighty feet high, on the site of the house in which he was born. Ibid., lxxix.61.

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