Kāḷavela untranslated

Kāḷavela 01. A monastery in Ceylon, the residence of Mahā Maliyadeva Thera (q.v.). Ja.vi.30.

Kāḷavela 02. A servant of Dīghagāmaṇi. He refused to promise the brothers of Ummādacittā that he would kill her if she gave birth to a boy, and so he was killed by them and reborn as a Yakkha (Mhv.ix.22f). Later he saved the life of this boy, Paṇḍukābhaya, who was being carried in a basket (Mhv.x.4), and when Paṇḍukābhaya came to the throne, he founded a settlement for Kāḷadeva to the east of Anurādhapura (Mhv.vs.84). It is said that on feast days the Yakkha appeared in visible form in company with Paṇḍukābhaya (Mhv.vs104).

Mahā Sena afterwards built a Thūpa on the site of Kāḷavela’s shrine. Mhv.xxxvii.44.