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මහාවංශය යනු ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ රාජ වංශය ගැන පාලි භාෂාවෙන් ලියැවුන ඓතිහාසික වාර්තාවකි. මෙයින් විජය රජුගේ ලංකාවතරණයේ (ක්‍රි.පූ. 543) සිට මහසෙන් රජුගේ රාජ්‍ය කාලය (334-361) දක්වා වූ කාලය ආවර්ණය වේ.

ක්‍රිස්තු වර්ශ සය වන (6) සියවසේදී මහානාම හිමියන් විසින් රචිත යැයි සැලකෙන මහාවංශය,ප්‍රධාන වශයෙන් ඊට ශතවර්ශ හතරකට (4) පෙර රචිත දීපවංශය මූලාශ්‍ර කොටගෙන ඇත.

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A companion volume, the Choolavansha or Choolavansha ("lesser chronicle"), compiled by Sinhala Buddhist monks, covers the period from the 4th century to the British takeover of Sri Lanka in 1815. The combined work, sometimes collectively referred to as the "Mahavansha", provides a continuous historical record of over two millennia.

While not considered a canonical religious text, the Mahavansha is an important Buddhist document of the early history of religion in Sri Lanka, beginning near the time of the founder of Buddhism, Siddhartha Gautama. As it often refers to the royal dynasties of India, the Mahavansha is also valuable to historians who wish to date and relate contemporary royal dynasties in the Indian subcontinent. It is very important in dating the consecration of the Maurya emperor Asoka, which is related to the synchronicity with the Seleucids and Alexander the Great.

A German translation of Mahavansha was completed by Wilhelm Geiger in 1912. This was then translated into English by Mabel Haynes Bode, and the English translation was revised by Geiger. The revised English translation is now available on the World wide web.