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The Mahavamsa (Pali: ?Great Chronicle?) is an important non-canonical Buddhist historical text compiled in Sri Lanka in the 6th century CE , in the Pali language.
The Mahavamsa covers the history of Buddhism from the time of the Buddha in the 6th century BCE to the reign of the King Mahasena (334-361). It was written in the by the monk Mahanama, brother of the Sri-Lankan King Dhatusena, and heavily relied on the Dipavamsa, written five centuries earlier.
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