Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v2.c31.1496

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2. **Mahānāga.**—Son of **Muṭasiva** and viceroy of **Devānampiyatissa.** His wife was **Anulā**, for whose ordination **Saṅghamittā** came over from **Jambudīpa.**¹ His second wife was a foolish woman who tried to poison him in order to get the throne for her son. While he was building the **Taraccha-tank**, she sent him some mangoes, the top one of which, intended for him, was poisoned. But it was her son who ate the mango and died. **Mahānāga** thereupon went to **Rohaṇa**, where he founded the dynasty of that name at **Mahāgāma.** His son was **Yaṭṭhālayaka-Tissa.** **Mahānāga** built the **Nāgamahā-vihāra** and the **Uddhakandara-vihāra.**²