Mediaeval Sinhalese Art c35.98

c35.98

Mahā-bhinishkramaṇaya, the ‘Great Renunciation’ (of the Buddha), sung by women whilst spinning, 235. Mahābodhi, temple at Buddha Gayā, a Buddhist site in India, 258. Mahā Brahma, represented at Ruvanvęli Dāgaba, second century B.C., 5. Mahā Deṃaḷa Saya, a building at Poloṇnaruva, 178. Mahā Dēvāle, see Mahā Vishṇu Dēvāle, Kandy. Mahā gabaḍava, royal store-house, 116: supply of earthen vessels for, in Kandy, 219. Mahagoḍa, a village in the Kēgalla District, Sab., 58. Maha-kaḍa, pl. -kat, a yoke-load of raw provisions, chiefly vegetables and coconut oil, given regularly once a month to the proprietor of a village, by the gam-vasam and nila-vasam tenants, 24, 26. Mahā Kasyapa, a priest of Dambulla gal-vihāra, 151. Maha-koḍiya, great flag of a Disāvanaya: list of these, 38. Maha lēkam-miṭiya, Great Record, borne in the perahera at Kandy, 38. Maha mal-petta, a pattern of woven cloths, 234; Pl. XXVIII., 1 (11). Maha-maṅgala sutta (P.), recited at a Nētra Pinkama, 174. Mahāmēgha, the park at Anurādhapura, 2, 3. Mahānirvāṇa-tantra, a Hindu scripture, on charity, 116. Maha perahera, the last five days of the perahera in Kandy, 39. Mahā-purusha, ‘Great-man,’ an epithet of Buddha, alluding to his supposed colossal stature, 153. Mahā-purusha-lakshaṇa, 32 superior beauties or teches of the Buddha, such as smooth skin, long tongue, lion’s strength, etc., 259. Mahara-niyangama, a village probably in the C.P., 180. Mahārāja Vihāra, the chief cave temple at Dambulla, 75, 263. Maha raṭava, a pattern of woven cloths, 234. Mahari, mythical tree of Puravideha, 94.