The Páli name for Burma, referring particularly to the maritime provinces.
After the conversion of Rámañña to Buddhism, there was a constant intercourse between that country and Ceylon (So says also Cv.lxxvi.10f). Vijayabáhu I. sent an embassy to Anuruddha, king of Rámañña, and obtained from him learned and pious monks to re establish the Sangha in Ceylon (Cv.lxviii.8; lx.5ff.; but see Cv. Trs.i.n.4).
The kings of Rámañña seem to have been in the habit of giving a special maintenance to Singhalese envoys sent to their country. The chief trade between the two countries was in elephants; the king of Rámañña made a gift of an elephant to every vessel bringing gifts from foreign lands. In the time of Parakkamabáhu I., relations were strained between the two countries as a result of insults paid by the king of Rámañña, and Parakkamabáhu sent a punitive expedition under the Damiládhikárin, Ádicca. This expedition started from Pallavanka, and some of the forces landed at Kusumí in Rámañña and the others at Papphálama. It is said that in a battle fought at Ukkama, the Singhalese forces killed the Rámañña king. Thereafter, through the intervention of the monks, peace was restored between the two countries, and the Ramanas, as the people of Rámañña were called, sent a yearly tribute to the king of Ceylon. For details of this expedition see Cv.lxxvi.10ff.; also Cv. Trs.ii.69, n.3.