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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 See also:

medieval times, of the Buddhist See also:order. The See also:oldest flourished about A.D. 1200, and was the author of the Vinaya Artha Samuccaya, a See also:work in the Sinhalese See also:language on Buddhist See also:canon See also:law. Next to him came Arannaka Medhankara, who presided over the Buddhist See also:council held at See also:Polonnaruwa, then the See also:capital of See also:Ceylon, in 1250. The third Vanaratana Medhankara, flourished in '28o, and wrote a poem in See also:Pali, Jina Carita, on the See also:life of the See also:Buddha. He also wrote the Payoga Siddhi. The See also:fourth was the celebrated See also:scholar to whom See also:King Parakrama Bahu IV. of Ceylon entrusted in 1307 the See also:translation from Pali into Sinhalese of the Jatakq See also: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 and allied subjects. See the See also:Journal of the Pali See also:Text Society, 1882, p. 126;'886, pp. 62, 67, 72 ; 1890, p. 63; '896, p.

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

verse 85. (T. W. R.

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