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Puṅkhagāma

Place

斯里蘭卡達吉納德薩的一座村莊,摩那婆羅那曾在此隱姓埋居,波羅迦摩巴忽一世也誕生於此;他後來在自己出生的宅邸原址建造了一座高聳的紀念塔。

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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