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# Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v2.c36.2885

Dictionary of Pāli Proper Names v2.c36.2885

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### [v2.c36.2885](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c36.2885)

Sirivīraparakkamanarindasīha.—King of Ceylon (1707-39 A.C.). He was the son of Vimaladhammasūriya II. He held great festivals in Mahiyaṅgaṇa, Sumanakūṭa and Anurādhapura, and built a suburb called Kuṇḍasālā, where he lived. The temple of the Tooth Relic, built by his father, he adorned with paintings of thirty-two Jātakas. He showed great honour to Saraṇaṅkara-sāmaṇera and gave him a golden casket studded with seven hundred jewels. At his request, Saraṇaṅkara wrote the Sāratthasaṅgaha and Commentaries on the Mahābodhivamsa and the Bhesajjamañjūsā.¹

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