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Mahāvaṃsa, an Uncommon card
Mahāvaṃsa is the historical chronicle of Sri Lanka until the period of Mahasena of Anuradhapura.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 70
- DEF
- 59
- Power
- 129
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 21,000
Power 129 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 65 % of WikiCards cards.
Mahāvaṃsa quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Mahāvaṃsa card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
It was written in the style of an epic poem written in the Pali ______.
Answer
language. It was written in the style of an epic poem written in the Pali language. From the Mahāvaṃsa article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Japanese pottery and porcelain. Japanese pottery and porcelain 78 · Boy George discography 73 · Mahāvaṃsa 70 · Continuous stirred-tank reactor 66 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- It was written in the style of an epic poem written in the Pali language.
- It relates the history of Sri Lanka from its legendary beginnings up to the reign of Mahasena of Anuradhapura covering the period between the arrival of Prince Vijaya from India in 543 BCE to his reign and later updated by different writers.
- It was first composed by a Buddhist monk named Mahānāma at the Mahavihāraya Temple in Anuradhapura in the 5th or 6th-century.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Mahāvaṃsa article was read about 21,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 70 and blocks with 59: each hit it takes is cut by 24 %.
How to get Mahāvaṃsa
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Mahāvaṃsa (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : http://www.geographicus.com/mm5/cartographers/mallet.txt, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
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