[Buddha-l] Dharmapala

[L.S. Cousins]

Artur Karp wrote:

> More on people-as-cattle --- in the Ceylonese "Great Chronicle".
>
> Mahavamsa XXXVI, on the rule of Ilanaga (38-44 AD ?).
>
> [Geiger] "As he had heard there the Kapi-jataka from the great thera,
> the preacher of jatakas, named Mahäpaduma, who dwelt in the (vihara)
> called Tuladhara, he, being won to faith in the Bodhisatta, restored
> the Nagamahavihara and gave it the extension of a hundred unbent bows
> in length, and he enlarged the thüpa even to what it has been (since
> then); moreover, he made the Tissa-tank and the tank called Dura.
>
A shorter version of this is all we have in the Dīpavaṃsa.


Lance Cousins