Sirikuḍḍa untranslated

Sirikuḍḍa, Sirikūṭa. Evidently another name for Mahā Nāma, king of Ceylon, who was Buddhaghosa’s patron. Buddhaghosa says, in the colophon to several of his works (e.g., Dhp­a.iv.235), that he composed them in the monastery erected for him by the monarch Sirikuḍḍa (Sirikūṭa).