Dakkhiṇavihāra untranslated

Dakkhiṇavihāra. A monastery built by Uttiya, a general of Vaṭṭagāmaṇī Abhaya, to the south of Anurādhapura (Mhv.xxxiii.88; Dpv.xix.19). It was originally inhabited by monks from the Abhayagirivihāra, but later there was a schism by the Dakkhiṇavihārakā, as the monks of the Dakkhiṇavihāra were called (Mhv.xxxiii.98).

Āmaṇḍagamaṇī Abhaya built for the monastery the Mahā Gāmeṇḍi tank (Mhv.xxxv.5), while Kaniṭṭhatissaka added a mantling to the Thūpa and built a refectory on some land on the boundary of the Mahā Meghavana; he also constructed a road to the vihāra, and moved on to one side the wall of the Mahā Vihāra in order to do this (Mhv.xxxvi.12f). Vohārakatissa erected a wall round the monastery (Mhv.vs.35) and Goṭhābhaya restored the uposatha hall (Mhv.vs.107). The Thera Tissa, for whom Mahā Sena built the Jetavanavihāra, was an incumbent of Dakkhiṇavihāra, in this context called Dakkhiṇārāma (Mhv.xxxvii.32). Aggabodhi I. erected a splendid pāsāda in the vihāra (Cv.xlii.14).

The vihāra is generally identified with what is now known as Eḷāra’s tomb (But see Cv.Trs.i.66, n.3).