Mayurapada Buddhaputra Thera

Mayūrapāda Buddhaputra, who calls himself Buddhaputta, was a Buddhist monk placed at the head of the Mayūrapāda monastic college. He lived in the second half of the thirteenth century, in the kingdom of Dambadeniya, under the reign of Parākramabāhu II, a ruler who gave full support to letters and under whom several major works in Sinhala prose were written. No date of birth or death is known for him.

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