WILHELM GEIGER

THE MAHAVAMSA – CHAPTER 17: THE ARRIVAL OF THE RELICS WHEN the great thera of lofty wisdom, after spending the

THE MAHAVAMSA – CHAPTER 18: THE RECEIVING OF THE GREAT BODHI-TREE THE monarch remembered the word spoken by the thera,

THE MAHAVAMSA – CHAPTER 19: THE COMING OF THE BODHI-TREE WHEN the lord of chariots had appointed to watch over

THE MAHAVAMSA – CHAPTER 20: THE NIBBANA OF THE THERA IN the eighteenth year (of the reign) of king Dhammasoka,

THE MAHAVAMSA – CHAPTER 21: THE FIVE KINGS UTTIYA’s younger brother, MAHASIVA, reigned after his death ten years, protecting the

THE MAHAVAMSA – CHAPTER 22: THE BIRTH OF PRINCE GAMANI WHEN he had slain Elara, DUTTAGAMANI became king. To show

THE MAHAVAMSA – CHAPTER 23: THE LEVYING OF THE WARRIORS FOREMOST in strength, beauty, shape and the qualities of courage

THE MAHAVAMSA – CHAPTER 24: THE WAR OF THE TWO BROTHERS SKILLED in (guiding) elephants and horses, and in (bearing)

THE MAHAVAMSA – CHAPTER 25: THE VICTORY OF DUTTHAGAMANI WHEN the king Dutthagamani had provided for his people and had

THE MAHAVAMSA – CHAPTER 26: THE CONSECRATING OF THE MARICAVATTI VIHARA WHEN that king of high renown had united Lañkä

THE MAHAVAMSA – CHAPTER 27: THE CONSECRATING OF THE LOHAPASADA HEREUPON the king called to mind the tradition known to

THE MAHAVAMSA – CHAPTER 28: THE OBTAINING OF THE WHEREWITHAL TO BUILD THE GREAT THUPA SPENDING a hundred thousand (pieces

THE MAHAVAMSA – CHAPTER 29: THE BEGINNING OF THE GREAT THUPA WHEN the wherewithal to build was thus brought together

THE MAHAVAMSA – CHAPTER 30: THE MAKING OF THE RELIC-CHAMBER WHEN the great king had reverentially greeted the whole brotherhood

THE MAHAVAMSA – CHAPTER 31: THE ENSHRINING OP THE RELICS WHEN the subduer of foes had completed the work on

THE MAHAVAMSA – CHAPTER 32: THE ENTRANCE INTO THE TUSITA-HEAVEN ERE yet the making of the chatta and the plaster-work’

THE MAHAVAMSA – CHAPTER 33: THE TEN KINGS UNDER the rule of the king Dutthagamani the subjects in the kingdom