Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v2.c31.2418

v2.c31.2418

13. Mahinda.—Son of the Ādipāda Kassapa and brother of Sena II. He married Tissā and Kittī. He became viceroy under Sena II. and ruled in Dakkhiṇadesa. Later he was discovered guilty of an intrigue in the king’s harem, and fled, unrecognised, with his family, to Malaya. Afterwards, however, he regained his honours and continued as viceroy, his daughter Saṅghā being married to Kassapa, son of Sena II. Mahinda built a temple under the Bodhi-tree, and, in the course of its construction, a workman discovered that one of the beams would harm a branch of the tree. Mahinda, on being informed of this, came and made a sacca-kiriyā, as a result of which the branch of the tree straightened itself during the night, leaving the building free. Mahinda also built the Mahindasena-pariveṇa, and died in the twenty-third year of Sena’s reign.¹ Ādipāda Kittaggabodhi was his son.²