Kalyāṇī untranslated

Kalyāṇī. The name of a river and of the district near its mouth in Ceylon. The Buddha visited the Kalyāṇi country in the eighth year after the Awakening, in company with five hundred monks, on the second day after the full-moon of Vesākha and, seated on the spot where the Kalyāṇicetiya was later built, he preached to the Nāgas and their king Maṇi­akkhika, at whose invitation he had come (Vin-a.i.89; Mhv.i.63, 75ff; Dpv.ii.42, 53; Ja.ii.128).

Once a king reigned in Kalyāṇī named Kalyāṇitissa, who had a daughter Vihāramahādevī. According to the legends connected with her, Kalyāṇī was at one time much further from the sea than it is now. The sea swallowed up several leagues of land (Mhv.xxii.12ff). King Yaṭṭhālatissa built a five-storied pāsāda in the town, which was later restored by Parakkamabāhu II. (Cv.lxxxv.64).

The Kalyāṇi district formed the fighting base of several campaigns, e.g., Cv.lxi.35, 39; lxxii.151.