MEDHANKARA  , the name of several distinguished members, in See also:

• MEDIEVAL

medieval times, of the Buddhist See also:

• ORDER
• ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
• ORDER, HOLY

order . The See also:

• OLDEST

oldest flourished about A.D . 1200, and was the author of the Vinaya Artha Samuccaya, a See also:

• WORK

work in the Sinhalese See also:

• LANGUAGE (adapted from the Fr. langage, from langue, tongue, Lat. lingua)

language on Buddhist See also:

• CANON

canon See also:

• LAW
• LAW (0. Eng. lagu, M. Eng. lawe; from an old Teutonic root lag, " lie," what lies fixed or evenly; cf. Lat. lex, Fr. loi)
• LAW, JOHN (1671—1729)
• LAW, WILLIAM (1686-1761)

law . Next to him came Arannaka Medhankara, who presided over the Buddhist See also:

• COUNCIL (Lat. concilium, from cum, together, and the root cal, to call)

council held at See also:

• POLONNARUWA

Polonnaruwa, then the See also:

• CAPITAL (i.e. capital stock or fund)
• CAPITAL (Lat. caput, head)

capital of See also:

• CEYLON

Ceylon, in 1250 . The third Vanaratana Medhankara, flourished in '28o, and wrote a poem in See also:

• PALI

Pali, Jina Carita, on the See also:

• LIFE

life of the See also:

• BUDDHA

Buddha . He also wrote the Payoga Siddhi . The See also:

• FOURTH

fourth was the celebrated See also:

• SCHOLAR, SCHOLARSHIP

scholar to whom See also:

• KING
• KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
• KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
• KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
• KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
• KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
• KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
• KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
• KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
• KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
• KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
• KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)

King Parakrama Bahu IV. of Ceylon entrusted in 1307 the See also:

• TRANSLATION

translation from Pali into Sinhalese of the Jatakq See also:

• BOOK

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 See also:

• COSMOGONY (from Gr. K6Qµos, world and yiyvevGay to be born)

cosmogony and allied subjects . See the See also:

• JOURNAL
• JOURNAL (through Fr. from late Lat. diurnalis, daily)

Journal of the Pali See also:

• TEXT (Lat. textum, woven fabric, from texere, to weave)

Text Society, 1882, p . 126;'886, pp . 62, 67, 72 ; 1890, p . 63; '896, p .

43; Mahavamsa, ch. xl., See also:

• VERSE (from Lat. versus, literally a line or furrow drawn by turning the plough, from vertere, and afterwards signifying an arrangement of syllables into feet)

verse 85 . (T . W . R .