Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v1.c23.23

v1.c23.23

Dakkhiṇa-vihāra.—A monastery built by Uttiya, a general of Vaṭṭagāmaṇi-Abhaya, to the south of Anurādhapura.¹ It was originally inhabited by monks from the Abhayagiri-vihāra, but later there was a schism by the Dakkhiṇavihārakā, as the monks of the Dakkhiṇa-vihāra were called.² Amaṇḍagāmaṇi-Abhaya built for the monastery the Mahāgāmeṇḍi-tank,³ while Kaṇiṭṭhatissaka added a mantling to the thūpa and built a refectory on some land on the boundary of the Mahāmeghavana; he also constructed a road to the vihāra, and moved on to one side the wall of the Mahāvihāra in order to do this.⁴ Vohāraka-Tissa erected a wall round the monastery⁵ and Goṭhābhaya restored the uposatha hall.⁶ The thera Tissa, for whom Mahāsena built the Jetavana-vihāra, was an incumbent of Dakkhiṇa-vihāra, in this context called Dakkhiṇārāma.⁷ Aggabodhi I. erected a splendid pāsāda in the vihāra.⁸