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MEDHANKARA

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 20 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MEDHANKARA  , the name of several distinguished members, in

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medieval times, of the Buddhist order . The
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oldest flourished about A.D . 1200, and was the author of the Vinaya Artha Samuccaya, a
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work in the Sinhalese language on Buddhist
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canon law . Next to him came Arannaka Medhankara, who presided over the Buddhist council held at
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Polonnaruwa, then the capital of
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Ceylon, in 1250 . The third Vanaratana Medhankara, flourished in '28o, and wrote a poem in
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Pali, Jina Carita, on the
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life of the
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Buddha . He also wrote the Payoga Siddhi . The
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fourth was the celebrated scholar to whom King Parakrama Bahu IV. of Ceylon entrusted in 1307 the
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translation from Pali into Sinhalese of the Jatakq
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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 .

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