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Theravada (major branch of Buddhism)

Source: Pali Kanon: Pali Proper Names

A ford in the Mahavaluka gana, near the Dhumarakkha mountain. It was here that Pandukabhaya captured the Yakkhini Cetiya (Mhv.x.59). This was a strategic point in the wars with the Tamils, and we find Kakavannatissa entrusting its protection to his son Dighabhaya (Mhv.xxiii.17). It is probable that, some time afterwards, the place fell into the hands of the Tamils, for we find Dutthagamani mentioned as having captured it from the Tamil general Kapisisa (Mhv.xxv.12). According to the Mahavamsa Tika (322, 366) the place was nine leagues from Anuradhapura, but Nimila journeyed there and back in one day.

The Anguttara Commentary (i.367) mentions that a man named Mahavacakala was once born there as a crocodile, a fathom in length, for having cast doubts on the efficacy of the Buddhas religion. Once he swallowed sixty carts with the bulls attached to them, the carts being filled with stone.

The ford is now identified with Mahagantota, the spot where the Ambanganga and the Mahaveliganga meet (Geiger, Mhv.Trs., 72, n.2). The Ambanganga was probably called Kacchakanadi, and at the spot where it met the Mahaveliganga, King Subha built the Nandigamaka vihara. See Mhv.xxxv.58, and MT.472; on this passage see also Geigers Trs., p.250, n.2; MT.472.

See also Assamandala.

context information

Theravāda is a major branch of Buddhism having the the Pali canon (tipitaka) as their canonical literature, which includes the vinaya-pitaka (monastic rules), the sutta-pitaka (Buddhist sermons) and the abhidhamma-pitaka (philosophy and psychology).

See also (Relevant definitions)

Partial matches: Tittha, Kacchaka, Kaccha.

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