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Source: archive.org: Ceylon Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 1963Mihintale is the name of a locality (or vihāra) that existed in the ancient kingdom of Anurādhapura, Ceylon (Sri Lanka).—Dvāramaṇḍalaka, also called Dovārikamaṇḍala or Vāramaṇḍala or Demiṭigama, was a village and sub-district close to Mihintale. It was 9 yojanas (70 to 85 miles) from Kacchakatittha (Mahagantoṭa). Near Dvāramaṇḍala was Hatthikkhandha-vihāra, in the eastern division of Rājaraṭṭha, built by Sūratissa (circa B.C. 200).
In the tablets of Mahinda IV (956-972) at Mihintale the king decrees that the whole supply of Kāṇavāva shall be utilised for Mihintale-vihāra only, in accordance with the custom prevailing during the Tamil regime.
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Full-text (+60): Cetiyapabbata, Dvaramandala, Ambatthala, Missakapabbata, Malaviya, Kadamujita, Kalatagama, Natabarisaka, Panahagamaka, Anulatissapabbata, Cujivilaka, Kanavapi, Katumahasaya, Navagunamahasaya, Pahanavil, Vadudevagama, Nayinda, Mininal, Talolagama, Detisasena.
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Mahavamsa (by Wilhelm Geiger)
Amaravati Art in the Context of Andhra Archaeology (by Sreyashi Ray chowdhuri)
Artistic Connectivity between Amarāvatī and Sri Lanka < [Chapter 5 - Impact of Amarāvatī Art]
Dipavamsa (study) (by Sibani Barman)
Chapter 1b - Social Conditions (before the arrival of Buddhism)
Village Folk-tales of Ceylon (Sri Lanka), vol. 1-3 (by Henry Parker)
Story 70 - The Jackal And The Leopard < [Part II (d) - Stories of the Rodiyas]
A Short history of Lanka (by Humphry William Codrington)
Chapter I - The Beginnings and the conversion to Buddhism (543 BC—161 BC)
Chapter III - The medieval kingdom to the Chola conquest in the eleventh century (479 AD—1070AD)
A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms (by Fa-Hien)