Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v2.c31.2131

v2.c31.2131

When Dhātusena became king he had the walls of the Mahāvihāra painted with various ornamental designs.¹⁵ The Dhammarucikas seem to have been favourites of this king and to have occupied the Mahāvihāra, later moving to Ambatthala-vihāra.¹⁶ Mahānāga instituted a permanent distribution of soup to the inhabitants of the Mahāvihāra,¹⁷ and Jeṭṭhatissa III. planted another Bodhi-tree there, called the Mahāmetta.¹⁸ Udaya I. built a new salāka-hall.¹⁹ Aggabodhi IX. discontinued the habit of the monks of the smaller vihāras surrounding Anurādhapura from coming to Mahāvihāra for their supply of medicines and made other arrangements for their distribution.²⁰ Sena I. and his queen Saṅghā erected and endowed the Saṅghasena-pariveṇa,²¹ while Kassapa IV. built the Samuddagiri-pariveṇa and gave it for the use of the Pamsu-kūlikas, while for the forest-dwelling monks of Mahāvihāra he built forest dwellings.²² Kassapa's kinsman, the general Rakkha, built a vihāra in the village of Savāraka and gave it to the incumbents of Mahāvihāra, to be used as a padhānaghara, while Mahālekhasena built, in Mahāvihāra itself, the Mahālekhapabbata.²³ Udaya IV. gave a diadem of jewels to the Buddha-image in Mahāvihāra, while his wife Vidurā added to it a network of rays made of precious stones.²⁴