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The Sacred City of Anuradhapura

1908

The attention of the officials of the British Government and the modern historians is particularly invited to the facts relating to the Mahame.gha Garden which until the interference of certain officials of the Ceylon Government formed the Sacred City ; and which in spite of the change of appearance by the establishment of meat stalls liquor shops foreign places of worship and so forth is [...] At the close of the second the pious king inquired thus :- Lord is the Religion of the Tathagata established in the Island of Ceylon ? THERA.— 0 king I when for the purpose of performing the uposatha and other special rites of the Saugha ground has been duly marked out according to the rules prescribed by the Lord Buddha then the great Religion will have been established. [...] By afternoon the City of Anuradhapura the road to the resting place of the Arahats the garden of the Sangha and other spots having been decorated the devoted Buddhist Monarch decked in all the insignia of royalty seated in his state chariot attended by his ministers and escorted by the military chiefs arrived at the abode (in Maharnègha Garden) of the monks. [...] With all the Relics and the Sacred Bowl the Samanera returned to Mihintale and delivered the same to the chief Thera who leaving the Bowl and the Relics given by the Emperor Asoka on the summit of the mountain came to the Mahamegha Garden bringing with him the Collar-bone Relic. [...] The prietesses and the right branch of the sacred Bodhi-tree were conducted in a procession the following description of which in the M ahawansa may be of interest :- " The sovereign stopping the progress of the procession at the entrance of the village of the Brahaman Tivakka as well as at the several aforesaid"?4 THE SACRED BODHI-TREE.
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Preface
i-viii B.W. Harischandra view
Chapter I. The Formation of the Mahamegha Garden
1-2 B.W. Harischandra view
Chapter II. The Friendship between the Emperor Asoka and King Devanampiya Tissa
3-4 B.W. Harischandra view
Chapter III. The Conversion of the King of Ceylon to Buddhism
5-10 B.W. Harischandra view
Chapter IV. Mihintale
11-12 B.W. Harischandra view
Chapter V. The Dedication of the Mahamegha Garden to the Sangha
13-15 B.W. Harischandra view
Chapter VI. The Demarcation of the Land for Mahaseema and the First Buddhist Procession in Ceylon
16-19 B.W. Harischandra view
Chapter VII. The Establishment of Religious Colleges
20-21 B.W. Harischandra view
Chapter VIII. Thuparama Dagaba
22-28 B.W. Harischandra view
Chapter IX. The Sacred Bodhi-Tree Sanghamitta Theri and Isurummiuni Vihara
29-34 B.W. Harischandra view
Chapter X. Mirisaweti Dagaba and Loha Maha Prasadaya
35-41 B.W. Harischandra view
Chapter XI. Ruwanweli Dagaba
42-52 B.W. Harischandra view
Chapter XII. Abhayagiri Dagaba
53-57 B.W. Harischandra view
Chapter XIII. Jetawanarama and Lankarama Dagabas
58-60 B.W. Harischandra view
Chapter XIV. Buddhist Grievances
61-104 B.W. Harischandra view
Chapter XV. The Journey to Anuradhapura and the Best Way to See the Shrines and Ruins
105-x B.W. Harischandra view
Chapter XVI. Required—a Commission
131-132 B.W. Harischandra view

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