Muṭasīva untranslated

Muṭasīva. King of Ceylon, senior contemporary of Asoka. He was the son of Paṇḍukābhaya and Suvaṇṇapālī, and reigned for sixty years (307-247 B.C.). Among his works was the laying out of the Mahā Meghavana. He had ten sons and two daughters, and was succeeded by his second son, Devānampiyatissa (Mhv.xi.1ff.; xiii.2). For their names see Dpv.xi.5 and xvii.25f., also Mhv­ṭ. 425: Abhaya, Tissa (Devānampiyatissa), Nāga (Mahā Nāga), Uttiya, Mattābhayā, Mitta, Sīva (Mahā Sīva), Asela, Tissa, (Sūratissa), Kīra, Anulā and Sīvalī.

The Dīpavaṁsa says that the sixth year of Asoka’s reign corresponded with the forty-eighth of Muṭasīva’s (v. 82; but see xi.13). Muṭasīva, was crowned in the fourteenth year of Candagutta’s reign and was still alive when the Third Council was held, when Mahinda was entrusted with the conversion of Ceylon; but Mahinda waited for the death of Muṭasīva before carrying out his mission. Mhv.xi.12.