Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v1.c10.76
Dictionary of Pāli Proper Names v1.c10.76
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**Ekanāḷika.**—A famine that broke out in Ceylon during the time of King **Kuñcanāga**. The people were reduced to very little food, but the king maintained, without interruption, a great alms-giving (*mahāpeḷā*) appointed for five hundred monks.¹