100 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, { April, 1905. 
In the Saddhammasamgaha and Paramatthavinicchaya it is 
stated that Anuruddha was born in Kaficipura on the Kaveri 
where he spent the early part of his life as a Buddhist priest. He 
gradually rose to the position of Sanghanayaka or High-priest. 
Subsequently he went to Tinnevelly and Tanjore and resided there 
for some time for the propagation of Buddhism. Afterwards he 
went over to Ceylon and was admitted into the priesthood of the 
Uttaramila monastery. He is mentioned in the Sataka as an 
upasthavira, but in the Saddhammasamgaha and other books he is 
described as a thera. 
The Uttaramila or Uttarola monastery! originated in Ceylon 
at the latter half of the 11th Century A.D. Anuruddha who 
belonged to that monastery? must therefore have lived after the 
11th Century A.D. 
In the Mahavamsa it is stated that Vijayabahu I, who was 
King of Ceylon from 1065 A.D.—1120 A.D., sent messengers 
with gifts to the Ramaiifia country unto his friend the King of 
been mentioned, viz., Abhidhammatthasamgaha and Paramatthavinicchaya 
Thus we read there :— 
Bjqrust Bia afyqeat az | 
URia Hat at yeHatafawag || 28 1 
waqaugiaaia Gta cag £zq | 
YAQUA SI AUIAWMITT | VY | 
( aamdae, ufvepe ¢ ) | 
Elsewhere we find the mention of two other works of Anuruddha, 
viz., Namaripapariccheda and Sataka. The Abhidhammatthasamgaha has 
been published by the Pali Text Society of London, and the Sataka by the 
Buddhist Text Society of Calcutta. 
1 Mahavamsa, chap. LVII, verse 20. 
° sateal featatfza aqearet- 
fies afazet Gate: | 
EF PUNTA SIT- 
Larpatremfarigag: tek 1 ( wqREMaT) | 
3 Mahavamsa, chap, LX, verse 5. 
