Similarly, the five other brothers too Rama, Uruwela, Anuradha, Vijitha and Rohana had their settlements named after them. It is said that the Indo-Aryan ancestors of the Sinhalese who came from North India and colonized the Island, named those settlements after them.
Therefore Digavapi Cetiya has become one of the sixteen most sacred places of the Buddhists in Sri Lanka.ĭigavapi Mandala or Digamadulla is supposed to be the settlement named after Prince Dighayu, one of six brothers of Baddha Katyana, the queen of King Panduwas Deva.
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However, Dipavamsa, the older Chronicle says that the Buddha travelling through air, went to Digavapi from Kelaniya thupa and that "at the place of Digavapi Cetiya, the Buddha who was full of compassion to the world,ĭescended from the air and again entered upon mystical meditation.
He gave himself up to meditation to consecrate the spot. Of Samantakuta (Adam's Peak) set out for Digavapi and seated himself with the brotherhood at the place where the Cetiya (afterwards) stood. It is true that an enormous Dagaba was built by King Sadda Tissa, brother of Dutugemunu.Īccording to the Mahawansa, the Buddha on his third visit to Sri Lanka, after spending the day at the foot Many people think Digavapi is only a Buddhist Dagaba in the Ampara District built during the Second Century B.
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