Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v2.c36.2823

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**Sirimeghavaṇṇa.**—King of Ceylon (362-409 A.D.). He was the son of Mahāsena. He restored the monastic buildings destroyed by Mahāsena and held a festival in the Ambatthala-cetiya in honour of Mahinda, of whom he made a life-size image of gold. He erected the Sotthiyākara-vihāra and built a stone terrace round the Tissavasabha-bodhi. The Buddha’s Tooth Relic was brought to Ceylon in the ninth year of the king’s reign, and the king placed it in the Dhammacakka-pāsāda. He held a great festival in honour of the Relic, and decreed that similar festivals should be held yearly in the Abhayuttara-vihāra. He is said to have built eighteen vihāras. He was succeeded by Jeṭṭhatissa.¹