Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v1.c24.164

v1.c24.164

5. Dhammakitti.—A thera of Ceylon, author of the Sinhalese prose work, the Saddharmālaṅkāra, in the fourteenth century, which is an enlarged translation of the Rasavāhinī. He was Saṅgharāja in the time of Bhuvanekabāhu V. His teacher was also called Dhammakitti and was a member of the Puṭabhattasela fraternity. This teacher was probably the author of the Pāli poem the Pārāmīmahāsataka. In addition to the Saddharmālaṅkāra, his pupil wrote several other works, the Saṅkhepa, the Jinabodhāvalī and the Bālāvātāra; also the Sinhalese chronicle, the Nikāyasaṅgraha.¹