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Source: Pali Kanon: Pali Proper Names

A province in Ceylon, probably in the west. Cv.xliv.88f.; but see Cv. Trs.i.82, n.4. In the province was the Vallipasana vihara residence of Maha Nagasena. MT.552.

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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).

India history and geography

Source: archive.org: Ceylon Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 1963

Pacchimadesa represents one of the four original divisions of Anurādhapura. Pacchimapassa or Pacchimadesa (in inscriptions, Paḍipasa or Pālapasa), the western division, extending over Vilacciya and Vilpattu to the western coast.

Anurādhapura was first founded as a village settlement in the second half of the 6th century B.C. by a Minister named Anurādha of the first, traditional King, Vijaya. The original kingdom of Anurādhapura extended over the entire northern and north-central plain. It was divided into four main divisions (e.g., Pacchimadesa), named after the four cardinal directions, and this nomenclature persisted long after the whole of Ceylon had been united as one kingdom in B.C. 161.

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The history of India traces the identification of countries, villages, towns and other regions of India, as well as mythology, zoology, royal dynasties, rulers, tribes, local festivities and traditions and regional languages. Ancient India enjoyed religious freedom and encourages the path of Dharma, a concept common to Buddhism, Hinduism, and Jainism.

See also (Relevant definitions)

Full-text: Dhatusenapabbata-vihara, Dhatusenapabbata, Cayanti, Pacchimapassa, Padipasa, Palapasa.

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