Kalyāṇivihāra untranslated

Kalyāṇivihāra (Kalyāṇikavihāra). A monastery attached to the Kalyāṇicetiya. It was from the earliest times the residence of eminent monks, such as Dhammagutta (Dhamma-protector) and his five hundred colleagues (Mhv.xxxii.51) and of Godattatthera (MN­a.i.100). Here a Thera, called Piṇḍapātiya, once recited the Brahmajālasutta, and the earth trembled as he finished his recital (DN­a.i.131). Near the vihāra was the village of Kāḷadīghavāpigāma, where monks who lived in the monastery went for alms (Snp-a.i.70; AN­a.i.13).

King Kaniṭṭhatissa built in this monastery an uposatha-hall (Mhv.xxxvi.17). Vijayabāhu III. restored the vihāra, which had been damaged by the Damiḷas, and reconstructed the cetiya, crowning it with a golden finial. He also built a gate-tower on the eastern side (Cv.lxxxi.59f).

In the fourteenth century Alagakkonāra seems to have bestowed great patronage on the monastery, and to have done many things for its improvement (See Ceylon Antiquary and Literary Register i.152; ii.149, 182).

Even in the fifteenth century the monastery was evidently considered one of the chief centres of the Saṅgha in Ceylon, for we find that the monks, sent by Dhammaceti from Rāmañña to Ceylon, received their ordination in the sīmā of Kalyāṇivihāra, and that on their return they consecrated a sīmā in Pegu known as the Kalyāṇisīmā (Bode, 38).