多くの比丘たちが海を渡って避難する中、六十人が経典を守り続け、後に再会したときに彼らの誦経に一言の食い違いもなかったという、スリランカの大飢饉の時代。

A period of great famine in Sri Lanka during which many monks fled overseas while sixty remained to guard the scriptures, later reunited without a single discrepancy in their recitations.