Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v1.c12.1376
Dictionary of Pāli Proper Names v1.c12.1376
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Kākavaṇṇa-Tissa (Kākavaṇṇa).—A king of the Rohaṇa-dynasty in Ceylon. He was the great-grandson of Mahānāga, brother of Devānaṃpiya-Tissa, and his father was Goṭhābhaya.¹ His capital was at Mahāgāma. He had as wife, Devī (better known as Vihāradevī), daughter of Tissa, king of Kalyāṇī, who had been cast into the sea to expiate her father’s crimes.² Their children were Duṭṭhagāmaṇi Abhaya and Saddhā-Tissa. Kākavaṇṇa-Tissa gathered round him all the foremost Sinhalese warriors of the time so that they should be available for Gāmaṇi, when the time came for his campaign against the Damiḷas.³