Nagadipa, Nāgadīpa, Nāgadipa: 1 definition
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Source: Pali Kanon: Pali Proper NamesA province of Ceylon, identified with the modern Jaffna peninsula and the north west of Ceylon.
The Buddhas second visit to Ceylon was to Nagadipa, to settle a dispute between two Nagas, Mahodara and Culodara (Mhv.i.47).
Jambukola (q.v.) was a harbour in Nagadipa, and there a vihara was built by Devanampiyatissa (Ibid., xx.25) and later restored by Kanitthatissa (Ibid., xxxvi.9). This vihara was probably called Tissa vihara (See ibid.,36).
Another vihara, called Salipabbata, was built by Mahallaka Naga (Ibid.,xxxv.124). The Unnalomaghara, the Rajayatana dhatucetiya and the Amalacetiya were probably all places of worship in Nagadipa (Cv.xlii.62).
The Valahassa Jataka (J.ii.128) says that the coast of Ceylon, from the river Kalyani to Nagadipa, was once infested by yakkhinis. Once (J.iii.187) Nagadipa was known as Serumadipa, and near by was Karadipa, earlier known as Ahidipa (J.iv.238).
An old story, given in the Commentaries (E.g., VibhA.444), speaks of a king called Diparaga, who reigned over Nagadipa in great splendour. Nagadipa was once an important centre of Buddhism in Ceylon (E.g., ibid., 446, 467; AA.i.422. MA.i.545; see also J.R.A.S., vol. xxvi) and contained many places of pilgrimage. There is a legend (DA.iii.899; VibhA.433) which relates that, when the Buddhas sasana comes to an end, all the Buddhas relics in Ceylon will gather together at the Mahacetiya and travel to the Rajayatanacetiya in Nagadipa, and then from there to the Mahabodhi tree at Gaya.
According to the Rasavahini (ii.19) the place was so called because it was given as gift to the woman named Naga. See Naga (7).
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).
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Starts with: Nakatipam, Nakatipan.
Full-text (+3): Nagagama, Serumadipa, Mahagirigama, Tissa Vihara, Ahidipa, Mahakhiragama, Mucalinda Vana, Unnalomaghara, Diparaja, Salipabbata Vihara, Rajayatanadhatu, Saddhasumanatissa, Karadipa, Vallabha, Samiddhisummana, Sussondi Jataka, Kanittha Tissa, Jambukola, Valahassa Jataka, Lonagiri.
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The Great Chronicle of Buddhas (by Ven. Mingun Sayadaw)
Part 4 - Buddha’s Visits to Sihala (Sri Lanka) and Nagadipa < [Chapter 26 - The Buddha’s Eighth Vassa at the Town of Susumaragira]
Part 7 - The Noble Practice of Fraternal Living (Sāranīya) < [Chapter 40 - The Buddha Declared the Seven Factors of Non-Decline for Rulers]
Dipavamsa (study) (by Sibani Barman)
Mahavamsa (by Wilhelm Geiger)
The Jataka tales [English], Volume 1-6 (by Robert Chalmers)
Jataka 196: Valāhassa-jātaka < [Book II - Dukanipāta]
A Short history of Lanka (by Humphry William Codrington)