The Mahāvaṃsa, or, the great chronicle of Ceylon /
translated into English by Wilhelm Geiger ; assisted by Mabel Haynes Bode ; with an addendum by G.C. Mendis.
Description
- Language(s)
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English
- Published
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Colombo : Ceylon Govt. Information Dept., 1950
- Note
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Includes genealogical tables.
Pali ed. published in 1908; English translation first published in 1912.
"The author of the Mahāvaṃsa is known as Mahānāma."--P. xi.
An English translation of W. Geiger's German translation of his own revised critical edition of the original Pali text.
- Physical Description
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lxiii, 327 p. :
2 maps ;
22 cm
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