Medhankara is the name of several distinguished members, in medieval times, of the
Buddhist order:
The oldest flourished about 1200, and was the author of the Vinaya Artha Samuccaya, a work in the
Sinhalese language on Buddhist
Canon law.
Next after him came Araññaka Medhankara, who presided over the Buddhist council held at
Polonnaruwa, then the capital of
Ceylon (now
Sri Lanka), in 1250.
The third, Vanaratana Medhankara, flourished in 1280, and wrote a poem in
Pāli, Jina Carita, on the life of the
Buddha. He also wrote the Payoga Siddhi.
The fourth was the celebrated scholar to whom King
Parākrama Bāhu IV of Ceylon entrusted in 1307 the translation from Pali into Sinhalese of the Jātaka 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 fara, on
cosmogony and allied subjects.
Journal of the Pali Text Society, 1882, p. 126; 1886, pp. 62, 67, 72; 1890, p. 63; 1896, p. 43.
Mahāvaṃsa, ch. xl., verse 85.
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Medhankara is the name of several distinguished members, in medieval times, of the
Buddhist order:
The oldest flourished about 1200, and was the author of the Vinaya Artha Samuccaya, a work in the
Sinhalese language on Buddhist
Canon law.
Next after him came Araññaka Medhankara, who presided over the Buddhist council held at
Polonnaruwa, then the capital of
Ceylon (now
Sri Lanka), in 1250.
The third, Vanaratana Medhankara, flourished in 1280, and wrote a poem in
Pāli, Jina Carita, on the life of the
Buddha. He also wrote the Payoga Siddhi.
The fourth was the celebrated scholar to whom King
Parākrama Bāhu IV of Ceylon entrusted in 1307 the translation from Pali into Sinhalese of the Jātaka 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 fara, on
cosmogony and allied subjects.
Journal of the Pali Text Society, 1882, p. 126; 1886, pp. 62, 67, 72; 1890, p. 63; 1896, p. 43.
Mahāvaṃsa, ch. xl., verse 85.
Surname list
This page lists people with the
surnameMedhankara. If an
internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that
link by adding the person's
given name(s) to the link.