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  • A Sinhalese ruler (Ādipāda) who founded a town at Govindamala in Rohaṇa and settled there after Māgha’s forces devastated Sri Lanka.

  • The younger son of Vijayabāhu III, made Yuvarāja under Parakkamabāhu II, who mastered the Tipiṭaka and later instructed the theras in it.

  • The second of Parakkamabāhu II’s five sons who, after fleeing a usurper’s coup, was restored by rebel soldiers and ruled as Bhuvanekabāhu I (1237–1284 CE), notably commissioning scribes to copy the entire Tipiṭaka for distribution to the chief monasteries.

  • The son of Bhuvanekabāhu I who succeeded Parakkamabāhu III, ruling from Hatthiselapura for eleven years (1291–1302 CE) and holding annual coronation festivals with new ordinations.

  • An eminent Sri Lankan monk of the fifteenth century, teacher of the author of the Anāpattidīpanī.

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