スリランカの Missaka 山の後の呼び名で、Devānampiyatissa 王が Mahinda のために僧院を建て、仏の遺骨がかつて安置された場所。

The later name of Missaka mountain in Sri Lanka, where King Devānampiyatissa built a monastery for Mahinda and where relics of the Buddha were once deposited.