[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.c36.2823 # Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v2.c36.2823 Dictionary of Pāli Proper Names v2.c36.2823 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c36.2823](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c36.2823) \*\*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 - [Previous: v2.c36.2822](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c36.2822) - [Next: v2.c36.2824](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c36.2824) - [Up: v2.c36](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c36) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c36.2823](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c36.2823) · Pramāṇa