Tissa Mahā Vihāra untranslated

Tissa Mahā Vihāra. A monastery in Rohaṇa, founded by Kākavaṇṇatissa (Mhv.xxii.23). It was also called Tissārāma (Mhv.xxii.28). It was one of the chief monastic establishments in Ceylon and was a place of pilgrimage. Some of the Sinhalese chronicles mention that Kākavaṇṇatissa built another vihāra of the same name on the east coast of Ceylon, at the place now known as Seruvila, where the Buddha’s frontal bone is deposited. The Mahā Meghavanārāma is also sometimes called the Tissamahārāma (e.g., Mhv.xx.25), and Tissārāma (Mhv.xv.174, 179, 203). Dappula gave to the Tissa Mahā Vihāra the village of Kattikapabbata (Cv.xiv.59).

Buddhaghosa says (DN­a.ii.581) that in his time all monks living in Ceylon, south of the Mahā Vālukanadī, assembled there twice a year, on the first and last day of the vassa.