Visuddbisilam abhivandiya Samgham
Karomi Sangitiyavarisanamarn.
From the above sloka, M. G. Coedes concludes
that the name of the writer was Vimaladhamma. The
work is as the name indicates, a history of Sah&is
or Buddhist councils. The author enumerates six
such councils, five in Ceylon and the last one at
Bangkok in A. D. 1788.
The book is divided into paricchedas or chapters
of which the first deals v,\& Jambudipasahgltiniddem.
It begins with the prediction of Dipankara, of the
birth and youth of the Bodhisatta and quotes the text
of the well-known DhammapadaUhakatha. After
quoting some stanzas on the Sambodhi and Parini*
bana, the writer Vimaladhamma states the tradition
about the first Sanglti or Council. After quoting
some stanzas from Mahavamsa and Saddhammasangha,
he gives the history of the second council m India.
The account of the conversion of Asoka, the third
council at Pataliputra.the mission of Mahinda to Ceylon
-were inspired by Samantapasadika, Saddhamma-
saiigha, Mahavansa and Dtfavamsa. The second
pariccheda is known as Lankadlpacatuthavarasan^
faniddesa containing the account of the fourth Council
in Ceylon and record of Buddhism in Ceylon. It
gives a genealogy of the king Asoka and the first
kings of Ceylon.
The four following chapters reproduce the last
two sections of Jinakulamnh. The seventh fariechedt