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# Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v1.c12.3022

Dictionary of Pāli Proper Names v1.c12.3022

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### [v1.c12.3022](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v1.c12.3022)

2. Keḷāsa.—A vihāra in Ceylon, probably in the district of Maṅgana. At one time sixty thousand monks dwelt there with Khuddatissa at their head.¹ This is probably not the Keḷāsa vihāra (in Jambudīpa ?) whence, we are told, Suriyagotta came with ninety thousand monks to the foundation of the Mahā Thūpa.²

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