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Pali Text Society
THE MAHĀVAṂSA
OR
THE GREAT CHRONICLE
OF CEYLON
TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH
BY
WILHELM GEIGER, PH.D.
PROFESSOR OF INDOGERMANIC PHILOLOGY
AT ERLANGEN UNIVERSITY
ASSISTED BY MABEL HAYNES BODE, PH.D.
LECTURER ON PALI AT
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LONDON
UNDER THE PATRONAGE OF THE GOVERNMENT OF CEYLON
London
PUBLISHED FOR THE PALI TEXT SOCIETY
BY
HENRY FROWDE
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, AMEN CORNER, E.C.
1912
