... the 4th-century Dīpavamsa, of a still earlier "common source now lost, viz. the Atthakathā-Mahāvamsa of the Mahāvihāra monastery, composed in old Sinhalese prose mingled with verse in the Pali language". 2 Basing himself mostly on a work antedating even the 4th-century, Mahānama, the author of the Mahāvamsa, presents a picture substantially earlier than does the Nandīsūtra which knows of ...
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