斯里兰卡历史上的一次大饥荒，许多比丘渡海避难，仅六十人留守护持经典，后来两方重聚时诵本竟无一字之差。

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.