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Mahavamsa
The Mahavamsa (Pali: “Great Chronicle”) is an important non-canonical Buddhist historical text compiled in Sri Lanka in the 6th century CE, in the Pali language.
The Mahavamsa covers the history of Buddhism from the time of the Buddha in the 6th century BCE to the reign of the King Mahasena (334-361). It was written in the by the monk Mahanama, brother of the Sri-Lankan King Dhatusena, and heavily relied on the Dipavamsa, written five centuries earlier.
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