Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v2.c34.431

v2.c34.431

**Mahānāma**'s son, **Sirimeghavaṇṇa**, had the pāsāda restored to its original form,¹⁶ and, later, Dhātusena renovated it,¹⁷ as did Aggabodhi I., who distributed the three garments to thrity-six thousand monks at the festival of dedication and assigned a village to provide for its protection.¹⁸ His successor, Aggabodhi II., deposited in the pāsāda the Buddha’s right collar-bone, which relic was later transferred to the Thūpārāma.¹⁹ In the reign of Aggabodhi IV., the ruler of Malaya repaired the central pinnacle,²⁰ while Mānavamma provided a new roof.²¹ Sena II. completely restored the pāsāda and placed in it an image of the Buddha in gold mosaic. The building was evidently not in use at the time, but he provided for its upkeep and assigned villages for its protection, and decreed that thirty-two monks should be in constant residence.²² Sena IV. was in the habit of preaching in the Lohapāsāda periodical sermons to the monks²³ which were based on the suttas, but, after his death, the place again fell into disrepair and was destroyed by the Coḷas. Parakkamabāhu I. restored it once again,²⁴ but it was soon after pillaged again and fell into ruin, in which state it remains to this day. There are now sixteen hundred monolithic stone columns (the same number as in the time of Parakkamabāhu I.), which evidently formed the framework of the lowest storey.