斯里兰卡现存最古老的巴利语编年史，源出大寺（Mahāvihāra）注释传统，由零散偈颂编缀而成，约于公元四世纪定型。

The oldest surviving Pāḷi chronicle of Sri Lanka, drawn from the Mahāvihāra commentarial tradition and assembled from fragmentary verses, thought to have taken its present form around the fourth century CE.