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Samantakūṭavaṇṇanā

An Account of Adam's Peak

SINHALESE TRADITION · volume 15 of 15

An account of Adam's Peak — Samanoḷa, Mount Samanta: 757 verses on the Buddha's visits to Ceylon, and above all on the third, when he left the print of his foot on the mountain for the pious to worship.

Its author is Vedeha, of the 1200s CE, who also wrote the Rasavāhinī — printed in this collection as well — and says so himself in that book's closing verses; his name stands in this volume too, as vedehatherena. He gives his preceptors as Ānanda Araññaratana and the Mahātheras Maṅgala and Kaliṅga.

Godakumbura edited the text for the Pali Text Society in 1958, and Hazlewood's translation appeared in 1986 as In Praise of Mount Samanta.

How it ends

Siddhiratthu.

SourcesHinüber 1996, pp. 97, 191, §§198, 413.

Layer
Treatise — treatise
Collection
SINHALESE TRADITION · volume 15 of 15
On
An Account of Adam's Peak
Written by
VedehaHinüber 1996, p. 97, §198; and the text itself, which names *vedehatherena*
When
1200s CEHinüber 1996, p. 97, §198
Pali text
Chaṭṭha Saṅgāyana (CST4)
English
In progress