斯里蘭卡現存最古老的巴利語編年史，源出大寺（Mahāvihāra）註釋傳統，由零散偈頌編綴而成，約於公元四世紀定型。

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.