Saddha Tissa

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Saddha Tissa (137-119 BC) was a Buddhist King of Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka. Saddha Tissa was the son of Kavan Tissa of Ruhuna and the brother of Duttagamani. He was the ruler of Digamadulla, the present day eastern province of Sri Lanka.

History

Since crown prince Saliya married a Chandala girl, King Dutugamunu’s younger brother, Saddha Tissa was consecrated as King. King Saddha Tissa continued the remaining work in Mahathupa.

During Saddha Tissa's reign, there was a major fire in the Lovamahapaya. The king subsequently reconstructed the Lowa Maha Paaya with seven levels. (Initially there were nine levels).

King Saddha Tissa built the Dighavapi vihara and the Duratissa reservoir. The Duratissa reservoir has an embankment 3,400 ft long and 14 feet high. The top of the bank is 15 feet wide. The reservoir has a capacity of 336 million Cu. ft and a surface area of 1,230 acres.

After King Saddha Tissa’s death, Mahasangha supported the second son of the King, Thulanthana.

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Mahavansa

Mahavansa/Chapter 33 tells....Under the rule of the king Dutthagamani the subjects in the kingdom lived happily; Salirajakumara was his famous son. Greatly gifted was he and ever took delight in works of merit; he tenderly loved a candäla woman of exceedingly great beauty. He was greatly enamoured of the Agokamaladevi. Therefore Dutthagamani's brother, Saddha Tissa, anointed king after his death, ruled, a peerless (prince), for eighteen years.

He finished the work on the parasol, and the plaster-work and the elephant-wall' of the Great Thüpa, he who won his name by his faith. The magnificent Lohapäsada caught fire from a lamp; he built the Lohapasada anew, seven stories high. And now was the pasada worth (only) ninety times a hundred thousand. He built the Dakkhinariri-vihara and the (vihara) Kallakalena, the Kalambaka-vihara, and the (vihara) Pettahgavalika, (the viharas) Velangavitthika, Dubbalavapitissaka and Duratissakavapi, and the Mutuviharaka. He also built viharas (from Anuradhapura) to Dighavapi, one for every yojana (of the way).

Moreover, he founded the Dighavapi-vihara together with the cetiya; for this cetiya he had a covering of network made set with gems, and in every mesh thereof was hung a splendid flower of gold, large as a waggon-wheel, that he had commanded them to fashion. (In honour) of the eighty-four thousand sections of the dhamma the ruler commanded also eighty-four thousand offerings. When the king had thus accomplished many works of merit he was reborn, after his death, among the Tusita gods.

While the great king Saddhatissa lived yet in Dighavapi his eldest son Lanjatissa built the beautiful vihara called Girikumbhila; and Thulathana, a younger son of this same (king), built the vihara called Kandara. When his father (Saddha Tissa) went to his brother (Dutthagamani at Anurãdhapura) Thulathana went with him, to bestow land for the use of the brotherhood upon his vihãra.

When Saddha Tissa died all the counsellors assembled, and when they had summoned together the whole brotherhood of bhikkhus in the Thuparama, they, with the consent of the brotherhood consecrated the prince Thulathana as king, that he might take the kingdom under his protection. When Lanja Tissa heard this he came hither,' overpowered him, and took the government upon himself. Only for one month and ten days had Thulathana been king.

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