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Encyclopedia Britannica



MEDHANKARA

This article appears in Volume V18, Page 20 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: MEC-MIC
MEDHANKARA , the name of several distinguished members, in medieval times, of the Buddhist order. The oldest flourished about A.D. 1200, and was the author of the Vinaya Artha Samuccaya, a
work
  in the Sinhalese language on Buddhist
canon
  law. Next to him came Arannaka Medhankara, who presided over the Buddhist
council
  held at
Polonnaruwa
 , then the
capital
  of
Ceylon
 , in 1250. The third Vanaratana Medhankara, flourished in '28o, and wrote a poem in
Pali
 , Jina Carita, on the
life
  of the Buddha. He also wrote the Payoga Siddhi. The fourth was the celebrated scholar to whom King Parakrama Bahu IV. of
Ceylon
  entrusted in 1307 the
translation
  from
Pali
  into Sinhalese of the Jatakq book, the most voluminous extant
work
  in Sinhalese. The fifth, a Burmese, was called the Sangharaja Nava Medhankara, and wrote in Pali a work entitled the Loka Padipa Sera, on cosmogony and allied subjects.
See the
Journal
  of the Pali Text Society, 1882, p. 126;'886, pp. 62, 67, 72 ; 1890, p. 63; '896, p. 43; Mahavamsa, ch. xl., verse 85.
(T. W. R. D.)


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