Dāṭhāvaṃsa

The history of the Tooth Relic, also called Dantadhātuvaṇṇanā — the chronicle of the object around which the kingship of Ceylon organised itself.

Dhammakitti wrote it in the early 1200s CE, a Rājaguru and a pupil of Sāriputta, at the suggestion of the general Parakkama who is named in the Mahāvaṃsa. It is written in ornate metres, and each of its five chapters closes in a special metre, as the Mahāvaṃsa's chapters do.

It is a translation of something older, or says it is. The book carries popular traditions about the relic and is said to render a Sinhalese original going back to the time when the relic first reached Ceylon, in the reign of Kitti Siri Meghavaṇṇa. Godakumbura places it in the Sinhalese tradition of relic literature beside the Daḷadāsirita and the Daḷadāvaṃsaya, and notes a further verse version, the Daḷadāhatana, composed in the Śaka year 1615.