[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.c31.3101 # Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v2.c31.3101 Dictionary of Pāli Proper Names v2.c31.3101 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c31.3101](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c31.3101) Muṭasīva.—King of Ceylon, senior contemporary of Asoka. He was the son of Paṇḍukābhaya and Suvaṇṇapālī, and reigned for sixty years (307-247 B.C.). Among his works was the laying out of the Mahāmeghavana. He had ten sons and two daughters,¹ and was succeeded by his second son, Devānampiyatissa.² The Dīpavaṃsa³ says that the sixth year of Asoka's reign corresponded with the forty-eighth of Muṭasīva's. Muṭasīva was crowned in the fourteenth year of Caṇḍagutta's reign and was still alive when the Third Council was held, when Mahinda was entrusted with the conversion of Ceylon; but Mahinda waited for the death of Muṭasīva before carrying out his mission.⁴ - [Previous: v2.c31.3100](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c31.3100) - [Next: v2.c31.3102](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c31.3102) - [Up: v2.c31](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c31) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c31.3101](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c31.3101) · Pramāṇa