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Definition of Mahacetiya

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- monument was not called a stūpa in ancient inscriptions, but rather the mahācetiya or great sanctuary. The stupa, or mahāchetiya, was possibly founded in...
- but scholars find the difference between a mahastupa and a stupa, or mahacetiya and cetiya, hard to pin down. Some authors have suggested that stupas...
- century BCE. There is an inscription, a votive offering to the Mangala Mahacetiya, apparently the former name of Kiri Vehera on the orders of one Mahadathika...