Mahiyanganaya is a town situated close to the Mahaweli River in Badulla District, Uva Province of Sri Lanka. It is said that Gautama Buddha visited Mahiyanganaya on the Duruthu full moon poya day in order to settle a dispute arose between Yakkas and Nagas (two tribes which then inhabited the area) and this was his first ever visit to Sri Lanka. Then the Buddha preached Dhamma to Sumana Saman, a leader in this area, to whom the Buddha gave a handful of his hair relic so that people could worship. After that Sumana Saman (now the god Sumana Saman) built a golden chethiya in which the sacred hair
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マヒヤンガナ（シンハラ語: මහියංගණය, 英語: Mahiyanganaya）は、スリランカのウバ州バドゥッラ県にあるマハウェリ川沿いの小さな町。釈迦がスリランカで初めて訪れた地とされ、仏教の聖地となっている。
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