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CONCISE MAHAVAMSA

HISTORY OF BUDDHISM IN SRI LANKA

FIRST EDITION

Ruwan Rajapakse, P.E.

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CONCISE MAHAVAMSA

HISTORY OF BUDDHISM IN SRI LANKA

Printed in Sri Lanka.

ISBN 0-9728657-0-5

Library of Congress Pre-Assigned Control Number

2003090637

Catalogued on 30 Jan 2003

Ruwan Rajapakse

Concise Mahavamsa

ISBN 0-9728657-0-5

Ruwan Rajapakse, P.E.

E-mail rar321@gmail.com

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Trustworthiness of Mahavamsa :

“We must not forget that the Mahavamsa is not a dry chronicle in the modern sense of the word, but a

poem. In a poem embellishments and sometimes also exaggerations may occur. But within these

limits I have the strong impression and whoever reads the Mahavamsa without prejudice will have the

same---that the author at least wished to tell the truth. He is perhaps sometimes misled by his

education and by his conviction, on account of his priestly mode of viewing things, but he never tells a

falsehood intentionally”

Wilhelm Geiger,

“The Trustworthiness of Mahavamsa”, The Indian Historical Quarterly, Vol VI, No. 2, 1930.06.

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Presented

Bhikku Bodhi

(Translator of Majjima Nikaya

And

Samyuttha Nikaya to English)

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