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The king, hearing this, became angry, seized them all together; He made them, with severed hands and bound, at the edge of the pond. 79. He sent a hundred other monks to Jambudīpa; Remembering his zeal, he purified the Dispensation. 80. He, wishing the monks to perform the Uposatha according to the Theravāda; Having been asked, was refused, and became angry and disrespectful. 81. Having reviled and spoken with harsh words; He, without asking the monks for forgiveness, went to the southern region. 82. He was afflicted by a great disease, and died soon after; Thus, in nine years, he abandoned the earth. 83. His son, named Aggabodhi, a prince; Became known as King Sirisaṅghabodhi. 84. He appointed his younger brother, Māṇa, to the viceroyalty; And gave him the southern region, with its troops, elephants, and chariots. 85. That king did not destroy the customs of former kings; He ruled the country righteously and greatly honored the Saṅgha. 86. Jeṭṭhatissa, hearing all this, while staying in Malaya; Approached Ariṭṭha mountain and gathered a large crowd. 87. Having brought the eastern and southern regions under his control, with well-disposed minds; He, with great power, began to approach the city gradually. 88. Having sent Dāṭhāsiva, his minister, to seize the western region; He himself stayed in the village of Siripiṭṭhika. 89. The king, having heard all this, dispatched the viceroy; He, with his army, went to the western region and put him to flight. 90. Like a chick in a nest, thinking it easy to kill the boy; The king, having deceived him, seized the prince's minister. 91. Thinking, "I will also seize Jeṭṭhatissa"; He, with a small force, came fearlessly and with great valor. 92. Jeṭṭhatissa, hearing this, with his army and vehicles prepared; Like the ocean breaking its bounds, He destroyed the king's army. 93. The king's army was broken, the king, mounting an elephant, alone, in an unknown guise, fled in a moment. 94. In the sixth month from the kingdom, boarding a swift ship, he left Jambudīpa, wealth, country, and relatives. 95. Then Jeṭṭhatissa became, king as before, he carried out all duties, and protected the Dispensation. 96. He gave Mahādāragiri, to the Abhayuttara Vihāra; to the Mahāvihāra he gave, the Mahāmettavhabodhika. 97. And Goṇḍigāma he gave, that king, to Jetavana; and Mātulaṅgaṇaka, and the village of Udumbaraṅgaṇa. 98. To Mahānāga he gave, to his main dwelling, and to Kassapa's Giri, food from Ambilāpika. 99. The village of Kakkhalavitthi, he gave to Veḷuvana; to Gaṅgāmāti Vihāra, he gave the village of Keheta. 100. To Antarāgaṅgasavha, the small village of Cullamātika; to Mayettikassapāvāsa, he gave the city of Sahanna. 101. To Kāḷavāpi Vihāra, he assigned the village of Udavha; these and other villages of wealth, he filled. 102. He repaired the old one, with three hundred thousand; and to the bhikkhus dwelling on the island, he gave the three robes. 103. The king's relatives, who had gone to Jambudīpa, hidden here and there, began to destroy the country. 104. Hearing that, Jeṭṭhatissa, approached Kāḷavāpi; fighting with them there, he made his dwelling with his army. 105. The king, having gone to the other shore, taking Damiḷa forces, approached Kāḷavāpi, and began to make war. 106. Jeṭṭhatissa, with his body armed, with wealth and weapons, having sent the minister Dāṭhasiva, to Jambudīpa. 107. Mounting the armored elephant, fighting, seeing his own army, being left behind, he who had mounted with him. 108. "Tell the great minister's words, my message to the queen; as you wish, she will do it afterwards. 109. Having gone forth, the great queen, and having recited the Āgama, she spoke the Abhidhamma." to the king, saying, "Give me a leaf." 110. Having given this command, to the Tamils who came and went; Having slain them in battle, when his life came to an end. 111. Seeing the Tamil Veḷuppada come to fight; Holding a betel-nut pouch in his hand, he then guarded his dagger. 112. Then, taking his own head, without hesitation, Cutting it off, he placed it on the elephant, and threw the dagger into its sheath. 113. The great army shouted, and the great minister too, then; Having gone and reported the attack, and the beheading of the king. 114. Having conveyed the message to the queen, regarding her command to ordain; It was completed in the Abhidhamma, together with the commentary. 115. Descending from the Dhamma seat, he sat on the ground; "Come, show the great deed of the king!" he was commanded. 116. Sitting before her, cutting off his own head; Throwing the dagger, he said, "Thus the king is dead." 117. Seeing that, she, with great sorrow, her heart burst, and she died; Thus, in five months, that king went to the heavens. 118. Thus, having conquered the battle, having crushed the enemies; Having made the kingdom normal, he dwelt in the excellent city. 119. In the name of the viceroy, which he himself had built; For the chief house of the one called Mahallarājā. 120. Indeed, the king gave two villages, Haṅkāra and Sāmugāmaka; And Kehellarājabhāga, and all the attendants. 121. Likewise, he gave to Jetavana, the village of Mahāmaṇika; He honored Mayettikassapāvāsa with the village of Sāla. 122. He also gave Ambillapadara to the mountain cetiya; In Pulatthinagara, he made a great lamp, and so on. 123. His ministers killed the young prince Māṇa; Having offended in the inner palace, even after giving equal friendship. 124. Then, he, the king, protecting the lineage, Anointed his younger brother, named Kassapa, as viceroy. 125. Hearing of Māṇa's death, taking the Tamils quickly; Dāṭhāsiva came to the village named Tintiṇī. 126. Knowing of his arrival, he went out and vāhano; Fighting for twelve years, he fled to Jambudīpa. 127. Leaving everything, going, for his own recognition, taking a single string of pearls, he indeed departed alone. 128. Without the string of pearls, having become king according to custom, he was known as Dāṭhopatissa, famous on the surface of the earth. 129. The other, having gained opportunity, seized the kingdom by fighting. They made each other flee, thus they, from time to time. 130. Thus, by the war of the two kings, oppressed, the whole world was afflicted, deprived of wealth and grain. 131. Dāṭhopatissa destroyed all of the former kings'. He took the essence from the three Nikāyas, and from the relic houses. 132. He took the gold from the golden statues, breaking them. All the offerings, like golden garlands, he removed. 133. Likewise, in Thūpārāma, he took the golden pinnacle from the house. He broke the parasol, adorned with precious gems, at the cetiya. 134. At Mahāpāḷi, he made the Damila people pay for boats. They burnt down the royal palaces, together with the relic house. 135. Later, regretting, to declare his own evil, he built, with his wealth, the Sākavatthu Vihāra. 136. His nephew, known among people as Ratanadāṭha, having become Mahādīpāda, supported him with all his wealth. 137. When Aggabodhi attained the kingdom by force of war, Kassapa, the crown prince, to protect his own army. 138. The foolish one, suddenly breaking the cetiya at Thūpārāma, which by Devānaṃpiyatissa, and by the lesser kings, 139. and by former kings, was worshipped, the essence of wealth; he seized it with evil policies, driven by wickedness. 140. Breaking the cetiya of the Southern Vihāra, he seized the essence of wealth, and likewise broke others. 141. The king, him doing thus, driven by evil policies, was indeed unable to stop him. Alas, evils are to be prevented! 142. Unable to stop him, the cetiya at Thūpārāma, broken by him, he had it restored, with a thousand auspicious things. 143. Then Dāṭh Opatissa, Aggabodhi, the lord of men, defeated, went to Rohaṇa, to gather army and vehicles. 144. Staying there, in his sixteenth year, struck by illness, he died. Then his younger brother, Kassapa, was the viceroy. 145. Having driven King Dāṭhopatissa to Jambudīpa, he made the country a single kingdom, but did not wear the crown. 146. By meeting with good people, he became remorseful, and thought, "I will make an end to evil deeds." 147. He had flower gardens, fruit gardens, and reservoirs built, and honored the three great caityas with great offerings. 148. He honored the Thūpārāma and gave it a village, and had the Dhamma preached by bhikkhus from all āgamas. 149. Having built a very strong palace in Maricavaṭṭi, he had the Great Elder, residing in Nāgasāla, live there. 150. Attending to him there, with the four requisites, he had him recite the Abhidhamma with the commentaries. 151. He made the Nāgasāla hermitage and gave it to him, and gave the village of Mahāniṭṭhila for his requisites. 152. Then that Dāṭhopatissa, having come here from Jambudīpa, bringing a great army, fought with him. 153. He died by Kassapa, who had well-equipped vehicles. Indeed, his reign was twelve years. 154. The nephew of that Dāṭhopatissa, bearing the same name, fled to Jambudīpa, fearing that great battle. 155. Thus, all possessions are impermanent, and beauty is very rare and momentary. Therefore, abandoning attachment to these, one should be devoted to the Dhamma, seeking welfare. The forty-second chapter, named "Six Kings," in the Mahāvaṃsa, made for the joy and emotion of good people. The forty-third chapter, "Four Kings." 1. Then Kassapa, victorious in battle, with a pure mind, made a rich meal for the Saṅgha at Mahāpāḷi. 2. He honored with great offerings the ascetic, the great Dhamma preacher, residing in Nāgasālā, and had him recite the good Dhamma. 3. Residing in his brother's dwelling, he had it written for the purpose of those dwelling in deep darkness, the entire Pāli with its commentaries. 4. He repaired the old, dilapidated stupa, and made it new; He established many monastic endowments