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Seeing the great thera Kumbhīlakamahātissa, of great renown, He performed a Buddha-pūjā at Acchagalla Vihāra. 69. Having ascended to clear the ground, he made a cetiya courtyard; The king, while descending, with Kavisīsa as his minister. 70. As he ascended with the queen, seeing one seated on the path, "He is not lying down!" he angrily killed Kavisīsa. 71. The remaining seven ministers, disgusted with that king, Fled from him, departing as they wished. 72. Robbed by thieves on the road, they entered Hambugallaka Vihāra; And saw the learned Tissatthera. 73. The thera of the four Nikāyas the elder, had them given as received: Clothes, treacle, oil, rice, and also gifts. 74. At the time of the Bodhi tree, when the elder was asked, "Where have you gone?" they revealed themselves and reported the matter. 75. "By whom can the Buddha's Dispensation be upheld? By the Damila people or by the king?" When they were thus asked, 76. they said, "By the king!" Having convinced them thus, they then took both Tissa and Mahātissa elders. 77. Having led them to the king, they made them forgive each other. The king, his ministers, and the elder himself requested. 78. "When the task is accomplished, you should come to me." The elders, having given their promise, returned to their places. 79. The king, of great renown, came to Anurādhapura; having slain the Damila Dāṭhika, he himself ruled the kingdom. 80. Then, the monarch destroyed that Niggantha monastery; and built a monastery there, with twelve cloisters. 81. From the establishment of the Mahāvihāra, in two years, and in seventeen years, and in ten months, 82. and in ten days having passed, the king, with reverence, established the Abhayagiri Vihāra. 83. Having scolded those elders, who were his former benefactors, he, the giver of honor, gave that monastery to the Mahātissa elder. 84. Since the king built a beautiful monastery in the village of Giri, therefore the monastery was named Abhayagiri. 85. Having commanded Somādevī, he placed her in her proper place; and making it named after her, he built the Somārāma. 86. That noble lady, having been taken down from the chariot at that place, saw a novice urinating in a Kadamba flower bush, covering his path with his hand. 87. The king, having heard his words, built a monastery there. 88. To the north of the Great Stūpa, a high-grounded Cetiya, named Silāsobhakaṇḍaka, the king himself built. 89. Among those seven warriors, he built one named Uttiya; to the south of the city, the Dakkhiṇa monastery. named Iṇa. 90. In that very place, a monastery named Mūla, the minister Mūla had it built, and he too was of that name. 91. The minister Sāliya had Sāliyārāma built; the minister Pabbata had Pabbatārāma built. 92. The minister Tissa had Uttaratissarāma built; when the beautiful monasteries were finished, they approached Thera Tissa. 93. "These monasteries we have built for your comfort, we give them to you," saying thus, they gave them. 94. The Thera settled those bhikkhus in all places, each in their proper abode; the ministers gave the Saṅgha various requisites for ascetics. 95. The king supported those dwelling in his own monastery with requisites and respect, thus they became numerous. 96. The Saṅgha expelled the Thera, known as Mahātissa, who was associated with families, due to the fault of family association. 97. His disciple, known as Thera Tissa of the thick beard, being angry, went to Abhayagiri and lived there, taking a side. 98. From then on, those bhikkhus did not go to the Mahāvihāra; thus, those of Abhayagiri separated from the Theravāda. 99. Those of Dakkhiṇavihāra separated from those of Abhayagiri; thus, those bhikkhus separated into two from the Theravādins. 100. To increase those great Abhaya bhikkhus, King Vaṭṭagāmaṇi Abhaya gave them a land called Patti. 101. He had monastery cells built with attached walls, thinking, "Thus there will be repair and maintenance." 102. The Pāli of the Three Piṭakas and its commentaries, in former times, wise bhikkhus brought them forth by oral recitation. 103. Seeing the decline of beings, the bhikkhus then assembled; for the long endurance of the Dhamma, they had them written in books. 104. King Vaṭṭagāmaṇi Abhaya ruled the kingdom for twelve years and five months from the beginning. 105. Thus, the wise one, who attains both the welfare of others and his own welfare, exercises sovereignty; but the one greedy for possessions, even if he has much wealth obtained by foolishness, does not accomplish the welfare of both. Sujanappa In the Mahavamsa, made for the sake of inspiring urgency, Named the Ten Kings, The Thirty-third Chapter. The Thirty-fourth Chapter The Account of the Eleven Kings 1. After him, Mahaculi Mahatissa ruled; He reigned for fourteen years, with righteousness and equity. 2. Having heard that a gift made with one's own hand brings great fruit, in his very first year, he went, disguised as an unknown person. 3. Having made a salt-marsh, and from the wages he received there, the king gave alms-food to the Elder Mahasumma. 4. Again, at Sonnagiri, for three years, that warrior, working at a sugar-mill, received wages, and from that, the sugar-balls. 5. Having had those sugar-balls brought, the king returned to the city; the king gave a great offering to the assembly of monks. 6. He gave robes to thirty thousand monks, and likewise to twelve thousand nuns. 7. Having had a well-established monastery built, the king gave the three robes to sixty thousand monks. 8. He also gave to thirty thousand nuns; He himself, that king, built the Mandavapi monastery, and also Abhayagallaka. 9. Vangupattangagalla, and Dighabahukagallaka, and Valagama monastery, that very king built. 10. Thus, that king, with faith, having performed many kinds of merit, after fourteen years, went to heaven. 11. The son of Vattagamani, known as Coranaga, during the reign of Mahaculi, was a bandit and roamed about. 12. When Mahaculi passed away, he came and reigned; he had not found a dwelling during his time as a bandit. 13. That foolish one destroyed those eighteen monasteries; Coranaga reigned for twelve years. 14. He fell into the Lokantarika hell; after him, the son of King Mahaculi reigned for only three years, known as King Tissa. 15. But Coranaga's queen, Anula, being wicked and malicious, gave poison and killed him, desiring the Elder Bala. While that Elder Bala was still alive, Anula desired him. nasā. 17. Having killed Tissa with poison, she gave his kingdom to him; Sīva by name, a strong man, the chief doorkeeper there. 18. Having made Anulā his queen, for a year and two months, he ruled the kingdom in the city, Anulā, the Damiḷa Vaṭuka. 19. She, enamored, killed him with poison, and gave the kingdom to Vaṭuka; This Vaṭuka, a Damiḷa, was formerly the city carpenter. 20. Having made Anulā his queen, for a year and two months, he ruled the kingdom in the city, Anulā, who had come there. 21. Seeing the wood-carrier, her mind became attached to him; Having killed Vaṭuka with poison, she gave the kingdom to him. 22. That Tissa, the wood-carrier, having made Anulā his queen, ruled the kingdom in the city for a year and one month. 23. He quickly built a pond in Mahāmeghavana; Nilīya by name, a Damiḷa, he was a brahmin priest. 24. Anulā, enamored with passion, desiring to live with him; Having given poison to that Tissa, the wood-carrier, and killed him. 25. She gave the kingdom to Nilīya, and that brahmin Nilīya, having made her his queen, constantly attended to her. 26. He ruled the kingdom for six months here in Anurādhapura; With thirty-two strong men, he indulged in pleasures as he wished. 27. Having killed that Nilīya with poison, the Khattiya Anulā; That Queen Anulā ruled for four months. 28. The second son of King Mahācūḷika, Kūṭakaṇṇa Tissa by name, was afraid of Queen Anulā. 29. Having fled and become an ascetic, when he gained strength here, he came and killed that Anulā, the wicked-minded one. 30. The lord of men ruled for twenty-two years; He built the Mahāuposathāgāra on Cetiyapabbata. 31. In front of that house, he built a stone stūpa; He planted a Bodhi tree right there, on Cetiyapabbata. 32. And he built the Pelagāmavihāra between the Gaṅgā rivers; And right there, Vaṇṇaka by name, and the great Mātika. 33. The great Ambadugga reservoir, and Bhayoluppala; A seven-cubit high wall, and a moat for the city. In the Great Stupa, having burnt the untidy parts, having removed a little from there, he caused the Great Stupa to be made. A Lotus Lake pleasure garden, in the city itself he made. His mother, having cleaned her teeth, ordained in the Buddha's Dispensation. On the family's own house-land, a residence for his mother, the bhikkhuni, he caused to be made. By that, he became known as Dantagaha. After his passing, his son, named Bhātika Abhaya, the khattiya, ruled the kingdom for twenty-eight years. Because he was the brother of King Mahādāṭṭhika, the king became known as "King Bhātika" in the island, the righteous one. He caused repairs in the Brazen Palace. In the Great Stupa, two railings, and a chapter house called Thūpāvaya. Having given up his own tax, all around the city, for a yojana, he caused to be planted jasmine creepers. From the foot-platform up to the main parasol, the king, with a thickness of four fingers, with perfume, (covered) the great cetiya. Having caused flowers to be smeared, with their stalks, well, there, having arranged them, he made the stupa like a ball of garlands. Again, with a thickness of two fingers, with red arsenic, having caused the cetiya to be smeared, he made it covered with flowers, just so. Again, from the staircase up to the main parasol, having caused the cetiya to be strewn with flowers, he covered it with a heap of flowers. Having caused water to be raised