Mahāvaṃsa (Sinhala: මහාවංශ (Mahāvansha), Pali: මහාවංස (Mahāvaṃsa)) is the meticulously kept historical chronicle of Sri Lanka until the period of Mahasena...

preserved in Pali-language texts, such as Dipavamsa, Mahavamsa, Vamsatthapakasini (a commentary on Mahavamsa), Buddhaghosha's commentary on the Vinaya, and...

Ashokavadana and Pamsupradanavadana), Dipavamsa, Mahavamsa, Vamsatthappakasini (also known as Mahvamsa Tika or "Mahavamsa commentary"), Samantapasadika, and the...

roughly begins in the 3rd century CE, based on Pali chronicles like the Mahavamsa, the Deepavamsa, and the Culavamsa. They describe the history of Sri Lanka...

distinguished as they observe different cultural customs. According to the Mahavamsa, a Pali chronicle compiled by Buddhist monks of the Anuradhapura Maha...

contents of the Mahavamsa, the major Pali chronicle, written in the 6th century. The Sinhalese Buddhist national chronicle Mahavamsa ('Great Chronicle')...

texts that provide information about his life (such as Ashokavadana and Mahavamsa) do not name his mother. The Asokavadanamala names her Subhadrangi, while...

and other sources around the 3rd to 4th century CE. Together with the Mahāvaṃsa, it is the source of many accounts of the ancient history of Sri Lanka...

Mahavamsa Part III is the title of a Sinhala language continuation of the Mahavamsa published in 1935 by Yagirala Pannananda, a Sri Lankan Buddhist monk...

"the Mahavamsa mentality.". D. S. Senanayake, who would become Sri Lanka's first prime minister in 1947, reaffirmed in 1939 the common Mahavamsa-based...