The Dīpavaṃsa (दीपवंस, Pali: [diːpɐˈʋɐ̃sɐ], "Chronicle of the Island") is the oldest historical record of Sri Lanka. The chronicle is believed to be compiled...

ching. the Sri Lankan tradition preserved in Pali-language texts, such as Dipavamsa, Mahavamsa, Vamsatthapakasini (a commentary on Mahavamsa), Buddhaghosha's...

include Divyavadana (including Ashokavadana and Pamsupradanavadana), Dipavamsa, Mahavamsa, Vamsatthappakasini (also known as Mahvamsa Tika or "Mahavamsa...

George Turnour discovered a Siamese version of the Sri Lankan manuscript Dipavamsa, or "Island Chronicle", associating Piyadasi with the early Maurya dynasty:...

commentaries written in Sinhala.[page needed] An earlier document known as the Dipavamsa (4th century CE) "Chronicles of the Island" is much simpler and contains...

Dīpavaṃsa chronicle lauds the Theravāda as a "great banyan" and dismissively portrays the other early Buddhist schools as thorns (kaṇṭaka). Dīpavaṃsa...

However, in 1837, George Turnour discovered Sri Lankan manuscripts (Dipavamsa, or "Island Chronicle" ) associating Piyadasi with Ashoka: "Two hundred...

role in proliferating Buddhism throughout the Indian subcontinent. The Dipavamsa and the Mahavamsa, Sri Lanka's two great religious chronicles, contain...

(as described in the traditional early chronicles of the island, the Dipavamsa and Mahavamsa) recounts the date of the establishment of the first Sinhalese...

approximately 189 monarchs of Sri Lanka described in chronicles such as the Dipavamsa, Mahāvaṃsa, Cūḷavaṃsa, and Rājāvaliya. Once Prakrit speakers had attained...

commentaries written in Sinhala.[page needed] An earlier document known as the Dipavamsa (4th century CE) "Island Chronicles" is much simpler and contains less...

not accepted as canonical by the Mahāsāṃghika school. The Theravādin Dīpavaṃsa, for example, records that the Mahāsāṃghikas had no abhidharma. However...

period, particularly in the realm of literature, as exemplified by the Dipavamsa and Mahavamsa chronicles, both written in Pali verse. Following the Anuradhapura...

Mahavamsa states that King Gothabhaya (249 – 262 AD) built a rubble wall. Dipavamsa reports that a rock-laid terrace and a lattice wall was built by King...

community which gives rise to the Sinhalese people. The Mahavamsa and Dipavamsa identify the prince as Vijaya, and the other two legends have different...

Pali-language Buddhist chronicles of Sri Lanka. It is not mentioned in Dipavamsa, the oldest of these chronicles. The earliest Buddhist source to mention...

(1992). The Dictionary of Modern Medicine. Geiger, Wilhelm (1908). The Dīpavaṃsa and Mahāvaṃsa and their historical development in Ceylon. Translated by...

of Avanti was transferred from Ujjayani to Mahishmati temporarily. The Dipavamsa mentions a territory called Mahisa, describing it as Mahisa-ratta ("Mahisa...

of Vijay as described in the traditional chronicles of the island, the Dipavamsa, Mahavamsa and Culavamsa, and later chronicles, recount the date of the...

Gajabahu's invasion of Chola Beminitiya Seya Relic of the tooth of the Buddha Dipavamsa The Six Dravidians Middle period (463–691) Mahavamsa Sigiriya Late period...

his reign is the Mahavamsa, which in turn is based on the more ancient Dipavamsa. Tissa was the second son of Mutasiva of Anuradhapura. The Mahavamsa describes...

the name "Nicobar" is in the Sri Lankan Pali Buddhist chronicles, the Dipavamsa (c. 3rd or 4th century CE) and the Mahavamsa (c. 4th or 5th century),...

first schism is found in several Sthavira sources including the Theravada Dipavamsa. According to these sources, some 35 years after the second council, there...

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references to betel only start appearing after the Vedic period, in works like Dipavaṃsa (c. 3rd century CE) and Mahāvaṃsa (c. 5th century). Betel chewing only...

Mahāvaṃsa.[full citation needed] He is attested by the Buddhist texts such as Dīpavaṃsa and Mahāvaṃsa ("Bindusaro"); the Jain texts such as Parishishta-Parvan;...

translated into English by Dārāb Dastur Peshotan Sanjānā, Leipzig 1897. The Dīpavaṃsa and Mahāvaṃsa and their historical development in Ceylon, translated into...

other works of Pāli literature such as historical chronicles (like the Dipavamsa and the Mahavamsa), hagiographies, poetry, Pāli grammars, and "sub-commentaries"...

dated in fourth-century or after, including the Sri Lankan Pali texts Dipavamsa (Rajavamsa section), Mahavamsa, Mahavamsa tika and Mahabodhivamsa. 7th...

and Ilam in Tamil (from Silam without the initial sibilant). In the Dipavaṃsa (the Buddhist oldest historical record of Sri Lanka, 3rd to 4th century...