Ambaṭṭhakola untranslated

Ambaṭṭhakola, Ambaṭṭhakolalena. A district in Ceylon near the modern Kurunegala, fifty-five miles from Anurādhapura. When Duṭṭhagāmaṇī planned to build the Mahā Thūpa silver appeared near a cave in this district by the power of the Devas and was discovered by a merchant who reported the find to the king; the king himself came to gather the silver for the Thūpa (Mhv.xxviii.20-35; Mhv­ṭ.512).

Later, Āmaṇḍagāmaṇī Abhaya built the Rajatalena Vihāra here (Mhv.xxxv.4, 5). It was in this district, in the neighbourhood of the Kuṭhārivihāra, that Moggallāna defeated his brother the parricide Kassapa I. (Cv.xxxix.21ff)

According to the Mahā Vaṁsaṭīkā it was in Ambaṭṭhakola that King Mahā Cūlī Mahā Tissa worked in Soṇṇagiri in a sugar mill to earn money for an alms-giving (Mhv­ṭ.624; Mhv.xxxiv.4f).