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...

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...

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:...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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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...

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

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...

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

the Mahāvibhāṣa were called Vaibhāṣikas. According to the Theravādin Dīpavaṃsa, the Sarvāstivādins emerged from the older Mahīśāsaka school, but the...

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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),...

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