斯里蘭卡歷史上的一次大饑荒，許多比丘渡海避難，僅六十人留守護持經典，後來兩方重聚時誦本竟無一字之差。

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.