• Dhammakitti

1. Dhammakitti. One of the Sinhalese envoys of Parakkamabāhu I. to the king of Rāmañña. The king insulted him and sent him, together with Vāgissara, back to Ceylon in a leaky ship. Cv.lxxvi.32ff.

2. Dhammakitti. A monk of Tambarattha. Parakkamabāhu II., hearing of his great virtues and holiness, sent him offerings of piety, inviting him to Ceylon. The Elder came and was much honoured by the king (Cv.lxxxiv.11). It is commonly believed (E.g., Cv.xcii.21.

4. Dhammakitti. Author of the Dāthāvamsa. He wrote this book in the reign of Līlāvati, at the request of her minister Parakkama, who was his patron. Dhammakitti speaks of himself as a pupil of Sāriputta (of Pulatthipura) (P.L.C.207f; Gv.62, 67). He is perhaps, identical with Dhammakitti I. P.L.C.215.

5. Dhammakitti. A thera of Ceylon, author of the Sinhalese prose work, the Saddharmālankāra, in the fourteenth century, which is an enlarged translation of the Rasavāhinī. He was Sangharāja in the time of Bhuvanekabāhu V. His teacher was also called Dhammakitti and was a member of the Putabhattasela fraternity. This teacher was probably the author of the Pāli poem the Pārāmīmahāsataka. In addition to the Saddharmālankāra, his pupil wrote several other works, the Sankhepa, the Jinabodhāvalī and the Bālāvatāra; also the Sinhalese chronicle, the Nikāyasangraha. P.L.C.226, 240, 243.

6. Dhammakitti. Called Dhammakitti Mahāsāmi, author of the Saddhamasangaha. His teacher was also called Dhammakitti, well-known in Ceylon. Dhammakitti Mahāsāmi came to Ceylon from Yodhapura (Ayojjha?) and, having acquired much merit, returned there, where he lived in the Lankārāma, built by Paramarāja. J.P.T.S., 1890, p.90.