[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [Dictionary of Pali Proper Names](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937) › v2.c31.2461 # Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v2.c31.2461 Dictionary of Pāli Proper Names v2.c31.2461 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c31.2461](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c31.2461) \*\*Mahiyaṅgana.\*\*—A locality in the old Mahānāga garden, on the banks of the Mahāvālukagaṅgā. It was there that the Buddha hovered in the air on his first visit to Ceylon, in order to frighten the Yakkhas. Later, Mahāsumana built there a shrine seven cubits in diameter, all of sapphire, and containing the hair given to him by the Buddha. After the Buddha's death, Sarabhū, a disciple of Sāriputta, brought there the collar-bone of the Buddha, which he deposited in the thūpa, increasing the height of the thūpa to twelve cubits. Uddhacūḷābhaya raised it to thirty cubits, while Duṭṭhagāmaṇi, dwelling there during his campaign against the Damiḷa Chatta, increased it to eighty cubits.¹ Vohārika Tissa erected a parasol over the thūpa.² Attached to the thūpa was a vihāra, near which lived the three Lambakaṇṇas, Saṅghatissa, Saṅghabodhi and Goṭhābhaya.³ - [Previous: v2.c31.2460](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c31.2460) - [Next: v2.c31.2462](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c31.2462) - [Up: v2.c31](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c31) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c31.2461](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c31.2461) · Pramāṇa