Pana
| Author:Laxman Burdak, IFS (R) |
Pana (पण) is name of a place mentioned in Mahavansha near Kasaparvata (Kasa Mountain) in Sri Lanka.
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In Mahavansha
Mahavansa/Chapter 10 mentions : The Consecrating of Pandukabhaya.... He gave him a hundred thousand (pieces of money) to enrol soldiers and when five hundred men had been enrolled by him (he said): `The (woman) at whose touch leaves turn to gold make thou thy queen, and my son Canda thy chaplain.' When he had thus said and given him money he sent him forth from thence with his soldiers. Proclaiming his name he, the virtuous prince, fared forth and when in the city of Paia near the Kasa-mountain he had gathered together seven hundred followers and provision for all, he went thence, followed by one thousand two hundred men to the mountain called Ginkanda.
पण (लंका)
विजयेन्द्र कुमार माथुर[1] ने लेख किया है ...पण (लंका), (AS,p.523): महवंश 10,27-28 में उल्लिखित एक स्थान जो कासपर्वत या वर्तमान कहगल के निकट बताया गया है.