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practiced by his predecessors in the country; And practicing righteousness, he settled there. 126. Taking the first step, Vajiragga, the leader; Having approached Anurādhapura, he showed himself to the king. 127. The king, seeing him, was angry, and quickly threw him into prison; He removed his protection and privileges, and harassed him in every way. 128. And he gave gifts equal to his weight, three times, that greatly renowned one; And the thūpa at Thūpārāma, he covered with gold plates. 129. Having built a palace right there, and settled the community of monks; In the monasteries and in the city, he restored what was old. 130. From the Kadamba river he made a firmly bound channel; He extended the embankment, of the tank named Mayettiya. 131. And there he made an outlet, the king, even in the rainy season; For robes, fine cloths, and beautiful ones he had given. 132. During famine, alms halls, having built for all beings; He maintained great almsgiving, and increased the great alms-distribution. 133. And he had curd-rice given, to those dwelling in the three fraternities; And constantly food for the poor, and gruel with condiments. 134. Such meritorious deeds, having done, leading to heaven, he; In eleven years, went to the company of devas. 135. In his eleven years, the gold that was spent, was of hundreds of thousands, thirty times. 136. The very difficult to conquer king Paṇḍu, and Mekoparo, the fierce stronghold of Rohaṇa; Even having made these kings subject, they themselves, living, met death. In the Mahāvaṃsa, composed for the serene joy and emotion of the good, the forty-ninth chapter, named "The Illumination of Two Kings". Fiftieth chapter, named "The Two Kings". 1. Then, having established himself in the kingdom, Kassapa gave the southern region; to Kassapa by name, the wise crown prince. 2. He had the chief anointing performed, for the daughter of the crown prince; for the princess Tissā, who was his own wife. 3. And to beggars and artisans, who came from here and there; An alms named Daṇḍissara, the king always had given. 4. That Ādipāda Mahinda, dwelling in Rohaṇa then; To seize the king's country, having gathered an army, he came. 5. Hearing that, the king was angry, and sent his own army; to fight. having abandoned him, he defeated him, Mahinda, that great warrior. 6. Then the king, to bring back his father, sent him; Kassapa, the crown prince, he went to his son. 7. Having spoken various dharma discourses, and many suitable words, he brought his son back from the Sangha, and returned again. 8. That Adipada, later, having slain the provincial rulers, seeing the enraged populace, went to the city. 9. The Bhikkhu Sangha brought him, and showed him to the king; He gave his daughter to him, and sent him back to Rohana. 10. Having expelled the immoral ones from the residents of the three Nikayas, he caused new bhikkhus to be ordained in the monasteries here and there. 11. By the Adipada, born of two consecrations, his good son, at the Bodhi tree in the Great Monastery, he increased the earth, venerating it. 12. And he made stone images in the three Nikayas; Golden rays of light, an umbrella, and a crest-jewel too. 13. In the Abhayagiri Vihara, a palace named after himself, having built it there, and settled bhikkhus, he caused a village to be given. 14. In the Mahiyangana Vihara, he gave a village to the cetiya; He caused food for images to be given to all bhikkhus. 15. On land and in water, to beings, he gave safety then; He always protected the customs of former kings. 16. His general Sena, of the Ilangora royal lineage, made a residence for the Theriyas, behind the Thuparama. 17. For the Dhammarucika bhikkhus, he made a Dhammarama; And for the Sagalikas too, one named Kassapasena. 18. He made one called Hadayunha on the Cetiya mountain; He gave a parivena to the Dhammarucika bhikkhus. 19. For the Arama bhikkhus, here and there in the aramas, the general made one hut each, and caused them to be given. 20. On Rattamalagiri, he made a beautiful, charming, good one; He gave a kuti to the ascetics, the owners of the Sasana. 21. In the Mahavihara, having built a splendid parivena, he gave it; For the Pamsukulika bhikkhus, named Samuddagiri. 22. Having made a residence in the forest, named after his own lineage, he gave. He gave to the bhikkhus in the Great Monastery, who lived in the forest. 23. And in the dilapidated monasteries, he had new work done; He gave old robes to all the bhikkhus. 24. Having made Tissārāma, a residence for bhikkhunis; He established Maricavaṭṭi Mahābodhi in a protective enclosure. 25. In Anurādhapura and also in Pulatthinagara; He had hospitals built to destroy epidemic diseases. 26. He gave the villages of enjoyment that he himself had established; And also the villages for the āramikas, and ornaments for images. 27. He built medicine houses here and there in the city; He gave food and clothing to the paṃsukūlika bhikkhus. 28. He freed many animals that were bound; And the commander-in-chief gave great alms to the poor. 29. He made rice with various curries, gruel, and various snacks; And having made a pig-shaped cake, he gave jaggery to the bhikkhus. 30. Having performed such merits, the leader of the army; Sena illuminated all directions with the light of his fame. 31. His relative, the leader named Rakkhasa; In the village of Savāraka, built a very charming monastery. 32. To the bhikkhus of the Great Monastery, who were excellent in practice; He gave well, establishing excellent observances. 33. The great scribe named Sena, built the great scribe's mountain; An excellent residence for bhikkhus in the Great Monastery. 34. And the minister named Coḷarāja, of that king; Rebuilt the lost pariveṇa, which was well-established. 35. The king made beautiful image work in the three fraternities; And various charming pavilions, like the palace of Sakka. 36. Having performed relic offerings, which delighted the people; He lived for seventeen years, according to his karma. 37. Then Kassapa, the crown prince, born of a double anointing; Received the anointing, when the rule of Lanka became unified. 38. Faithful, like one who has attained the path, wise as if endowed with supernormal powers; He was a speaker, like Maramanti, generous like Dhanada. 39. Learned, a Dhamma preacher, skilled in all arts; The crown prince. skilled in discerning what is right and wrong, a master of policy. 40. Unshaken like an emerald pillar, he stood firm in the Buddha's teaching; unmoved by the winds of opposing doctrines, by all of them. 41. Deceit, fraud, conceit, and other evils were beyond his reach; a mine of virtues, an ocean of all jewels. 42. That king, a moon on earth, to his own son, Dappuḷa, a mighty warrior, he gave the position of crown prince. 43. He ruled the kingdom with the ten royal virtues and the four bases of sympathy, protecting the world as his own eye. 44. He upheld all the teaching with the Master's righteous deeds; gathering new monks, he filled the monasteries. 45. The Maricavaṭṭi Vihāra, built by King Duṭṭhagāmaṇī, which had fallen into ruin, he rebuilt, adorning it with various dwellings. 46. To the monks of the Thera lineage, he gave a great offering; and to five hundred of them, he granted villages for their support. 47. There, in the delightful Tusita heaven, surrounded by the assembly of gods, Metteyya, the Lord of the world, was teaching the supreme Dhamma. 48. As if showing this to the world, in the fully equipped monastery, he sat in a delightful pavilion, adorned with various jewels. 49. Surrounded by all the citizens and by monks, the king of Lanka, in the manner of the Buddha, expounded the Abhidhamma. 50. Then, having the Abhidhamma Piṭaka inscribed on golden plates, the book of Dhammasaṅgaṇī, adorned with various jewels. 51. He had it placed in the middle of the city, having made a supreme golden shrine; and having placed it there, he arranged for its veneration. 52. Giving his son the position of a general of Sakka, he appointed him to protect those Dhamma books there. 53. Annually, the king, with his army adorned as if the city were a divine city, and surrounded by them. 54. Shining like a king of gods, adorned with all ornaments, seated on an elephant, he proceeded through the city streets. 55. With great veneration, he brought that Dhammasaṅgaha to the delightful monastery he himself had built, fully equipped. 56. There, in the delightful relic chamber, adorned with various jewels, In the pavilion, on a metal seat, he placed it and worshipped. 57. He made the Ganthākara monastery in Mahāmeghavana; And a Vajjasālā in the city, and gave it to them in the village. 58. And the Bhaṇḍika monastery, and the Silāmegha mountain; Having made it in Abhayagiri, he gave them a village. 59. In the Jotivanavihāra, the king, leader of Lanka; Gave a village for the refectory, and likewise in Abhayagiri. 60. To the monastery named Dakkhiṇagiri, the king, supremely righteous, gave a village out of gratitude. 61. Sakkasenāpati, having built a delightful monastery; Gave it with its villages, named after the Therīs. 62. His wife Vajirā, for them indeed, having built a monastery, gave it with its village, named after herself. 63. Having built a dwelling, she herself, at Padalañchana, gave it to the bhikkhunīs, honored in the lineage of the elders everywhere. 64. Sakkasenāpati’s mother, Devā, for the forest-dwelling bhikkhus, the lamps of the elder’s lineage, made a dwelling named after herself. 65. She herself, for the image of the Teacher at Maricavaṭṭi; Made a crest-jewel, foot-water, an umbrella, and robes. 66. The king, in the royal palace itself, made a delightful palace named Pāḷika, after his own royal lineage. 67. The queen, another wife of the king, worshipped the Hemamālika cetiya