According to the Mahavamsa, the Sinhalese are descended from the exiled Prince Vijaya and his party of seven hundred followers who arrived on the island in 543 BCE.

According to the genesis chronicle of the majority Sinhala people, the Mahavamsa (" Great Chronicle "), written in 5th century CE, the Pulindas believed to refer to Veddas are descended from Prince Vijaya ( 6th-5th century BC ), the founding father of the Sinhalese nation, through Kuveni, a woman of the indigenous Yakkha clan whom he had espoused.

According to Mahavamsa, the Vanga prince Vijaya Singha conquered Lanka ( modern day Sri Lanka ) in 544 BC and gave the name " Sinhala " to the country.

* According to an ancient Sri Lankan source, the Mahavamsa, Greek monks seem to have been active proselytizers of Buddhism during the time of Menander: the Yona ( Greek ) Mahadhammarakkhita () is said to have come from " Alasandra " ( thought to be Alexandria of the Caucasus, the city founded by Alexander the Great, near today ’ s Kabul ) with 30, 000 monks for the foundation ceremony of the Maha Thupa (" Great stupa ") at Anuradhapura in Sri Lanka, during the 2nd century BC:

According to the Mahavamsa, the Sri Maha Bodhi in Sri Lanka was planted in 288 BC, making it the oldest verified specimen of any angiosperm.

According to the Mahavamsa, branches from the Bodhi trees of all the Buddhas born during this kalpa were planted in Ceylon ( Sri Lanka ) on the spot where the sacred Bodhi tree stands today in Anurādhapura.

According to the Buddhist scripture Mahavamsa, the presence of Brahmins have been recorded in Sri Lanka as early as 500BC when the first migrations from the Indian mainland supposedly took place.

According to the chronicle Mahavamsa, the first settlers were Prince Vijaya and his entourage.

According to the Mahavamsa, the Ruwanwelisaya | Great Stupa in Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka, was dedicated by a 30, 000-strong " Yona " delegation from " Alexandria of the Caucasus | Alexandria " around 130 BCE.

According to the Mahavamsa – a historical poem written in the Pali language, of the kings of Sri Lanka – King Vijaya ( 543 – 505 BC ) married a Pandyan Princess.

According to the Mahavamsa, the Ruwanwelisaya | Great Stupa in Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka, was dedicated by a 30, 000-strong " Yona " delegation from " Alexandria of the Caucasus | Alexandria " around 130 BCE.

According to the Mahavamsa, the Ruwanwelisaya | Great Stupa in Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka, was dedicated by a 30, 000-strong " Yona " delegation from " Alexandria of the Caucasus | Alexandria " around 130 BCE.

According to the Mahavamsa, the Mahavihara was destroyed during sectarian conflicts with the Theravada monks of the Abhayagiri Vihara during the 4th century.

According to the chronicles as Mahavamsa the entire complex was built by King Kashyapa ( 477 – 495 CE ), and after the king's death, it was used as a Buddhist monastery until 14th century.

According to the Mahavamsa, ' He ( Veediya Bandara ), went and stopped at the Seven Korale.

According to Mahavamsa, the Vanga prince Vijaya Simha conquered Lanka ( modern day Sri Lanka ) in 544 BC and gave the name " Sinhala " to the country.

According to Mahavamsa, on the death of Sihabahu of Sinhapura ( Lala Rattha

According to the Pali Canon, both pluralism ( naanatta ) and monism ( ekatta ) are speculative views.

According to discourses found in both the Theravada school's Pali canon, and some of the Āgamas in the Chinese Buddhist canon, the Noble Eightfold Path was rediscovered by Gautama Buddha during his quest for enlightenment.

According to the discourses in the Pali and Chinese canons, right view, right intention, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, and right mindfulness are used as the support and requisite conditions for the practice of right concentration.

According to the Pali Texts, the Buddha ate meat long as the animal was not killed specifically for Him.

According to early Buddhist scripture, the Buddha refused to answer certain questions regarding metaphysical propositions, known as the fourteen unanswerable questions ( the Pali Canon only gives ten ).

According to the Pali canon:

According to the Buddha the path to liberation is one of progressively coming out of delusion ( Pali: Moha ).

According to tradition, Menander embraced the Buddhist faith, as described in the Milinda Panha, a classical Pali Buddhist text on the discussions between Milinda and the Buddhist sage Nāgasena.

* 29 BCE: According to the Sinhalese chronicles, the Pali Canon is written down in the reign of King ( 29 – 17 BCE )

According to Brahmi, kharoshti, Pali and Sanskrit edicts Ashoka the great founded 84, 000 stupas all over the south Asia.

According to Thai history, Ramkhamhaeng is traditionally credited with developing the Thai alphabet ( Lai Sue Thai ) from Sanskrit, Pali and Grantha script.

According to a legend preserved in Pali, the language of the Theravada canon, two merchant brothers from Bactria, named Tapassu and Bhallika, visited the Buddha and became his disciples.

According to the Pali Buddhist text Milinda Pañha King Milinda is said to have reigned from the city around 100 BC.

According to Bhikkhu Bodhi, the post-canonical Pali commentary uses the three terms viññāa, mano and citta as synonyms for the mind sense base ( mana-ayatana ); however, in the Sutta Pitaka, these three terms are generally contextualized differently:

According to the Pali Canon the gods have powers to affect only so far as their realm of influence or control allows them.

According to the Pali Canon, omnipotence cannot be ascribed to any being.

According to the Pali Canon, Sariputta died peacefully on the full moon day of the Kartika month of the ancient Indian calendar, a few months before the Buddha, having achieved Parinibbana, and when Sariputta's assistant, Cunda, gave the news to Ananda, Ananda was very distressed.

According to the Ghata Jataka, Vasudeva, Baladeva and eight other Andhaka-Venhu ( probably, a corrupt form of Andhaka-Venhi, Pali equivalent to Sanskrit Andhaka-Vrishni ) brothers seized Dvaravati and killed its king Kamsa.

According to the Lanercost Chronicle, Alexander did not spend his decade as a widower alone: " he used never to forbear on account of season nor storm, nor for perils of flood or rocky cliffs, but would visit none too creditably nuns or matrons, virgins or widows as the fancy seized him, sometimes in disguise.

According to the Anglo Saxon Chronicle, Ælle and three of his sons are said to have landed at a place called Cymensora and fought against the local Britons.

According to the Chronicle of the Kings of Alba he was killed by Causantín either in 871 or 872 when he returned to Pictland to collect further tribute.

According to the Chronicle, Áed was followed by Eochaid, a grandson of Kenneth MacAlpin, who is somehow connected with Giric, but all other lists say that Giric ruled after Áed and make great claims for him.

According to the San Francisco Chronicle, by 1989 Unification Church members preferred to be called " Unificationists " rather than " Moonies.

According to the Primary Chronicle, Olga was born in Pleskov ( Pskov ) ( perhaps in Plisnensk near Lviv ), into a family of Varyag origin.

According to the Primary Chronicle, a Varangian from Rus ' people, named Rurik, was elected ruler of Novgorod in 862.

According to the Primary Chronicle Rurik was one of the Rus, a Varangian tribe likened by the chronicler to Danes, Swedes, English and Gotlanders.

According to The Chronicle of Higher Education, for 2004 The University of Tulsa's freshman class ranked 9th nationally among research universities in the number of National Merit Scholars per capita .< ref >

According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Wessex was founded by Cerdic and Cynric, chieftains of a clan known as the Gewisse, who were said to have landed on the Hampshire coast and conquered the surrounding area, including the Isle of Wight.

According to Cosmas's Chronicle, one of Boleslav's sons was born on the day of Wenceslaus ' death, and because of the ominous circumstance of his birth the infant was named Strachkvas, which means " a dreadful feast ".

According to the historian David Bates, this probably means that little happened of note, and that because William was on the continent, there was nothing for the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle to record.

* According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, 4, 000 Britons are slain at Crecganford in battle against Hengist and his son Aesc.

* According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Hengist dies and is succeeded by his son Oisc as king of Kent.

* According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Aelle, first king of the South Saxons, lands on the Sussex coast ( England ), with his three sons, near Cymenshore.

According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, the witan would only receive him back under the condition that he promise to rule better than he had.

According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Edward was sworn in as king alongside Harthacnut, but a diploma issued by Harthacnut in 1042 describes him as the king's brother.

According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle he " did nothing worthy of a king as long as he ruled.

According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Harold Harefoot ruled for four years and 16 weeks, by which calculation he would have begun ruling two weeks after the death of Cnut.

According to the Primary Chronicle: upon his expeditions he carried with him neither wagons nor kettles, and boiled no meat, but cut off small strips of horseflesh, game or beef, and ate it after roasting it on the coals.

According to Flora Wellman's account, as recorded in the San Francisco Chronicle of June 4, 1875, Chaney demanded that she have an abortion.

According to the Nuremberg Chronicle of 1493 AD, the emperor martyred the Roman priest during a general persecution of Christians.

According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, it was given to him " because of his valour " in resisting the Danish invasion led by Cnut the Great.

According to the chronicler John the Deacon, author of the Chronicon Venetum (" Chronicle of Venice "), written about AD 1000, the office of the Doge was first instituted in Venice about 700, replacing tribunes that had led the cluster of early settlements in the lagoon.