Abhaya

Abhaya was king of Upatissa Nuwara (modern-day Sri Lanka) from 474 BC to 454 BC. He succeeded his father Panduvasdeva after being chosen by his siblings as the oldest among them to be the next monarch of Upatissa Nuwara.

Abhaya's twentieth year having elapsed, Pakunda had completed his twentieth year. Pakundaka was crowned when the thirty-seventh year from his birth had clasped.
After Abhaya's twentieth year Pakundaka lived as a robber; seventeen years later he put to death seven of his maternal uncles, and reserved the royal coronation in the town of Anuradhapura.
when ten years (of his reign) had elapsed and sixty years (of it) were still to follow, he fixed the boundaries of the villages and completely tranquilized (the country).
Enjoying sovereignty both over men and yakkhas, pakunda reigned during full seventy years.
The son of Pakunda was the prince called mutasiva; this king reigned sixty years over Tambapanni.

There were then ten brothers, the sons of Mutasiva: Abhaya, Tissa, and Naga, Utti together with Mattabhaya, Mitta, siva, and Asela Tissa, and kira completing the number of ten and princess Anula and sivala, the daughters of Mutasiva.
when eight years of Ajatasattu had elapsed, Vijaya came bither; after the fourteenth yeas of Udaya they crowned Panduvasa.
In the interval between the two king Vijaya and Panduvasa, Tambapanni was without a king during one year.
In the twentyfirst year of Nagadasa, Panduvasa died, and they crowned Abhaya in the twenty-first year of Nagadasa.
In the fourteenth year of Candagutta the king Called Pakundaka died.

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