A monastery attached to the Kalyáni-cetiya. It was from the earliest times the residence of eminent monks, such as Dhammagutta (the Earth-shaker) and his five hundred colleagues (Mhv.xxxii.51) and of Godattatthera (MA.i.100). Here a thera, called Pindapátiya, once recited the Brahmajála Sutta, and the earth trembled as he finished his recital (DA.i.131). Near the vihára was the village of Káladíghavápigáma, where monks who lived in the monastery went for alms (SnA.i.70; AA.i.13).
King Kanittha-Tissa built in this monastery an uposatha-hall (Mhv.xxxvi.17). Vijayabáhu III. restored the vihára, which had been damaged by the Damilas, and reconstructed the cetiya, crowning it with a golden finial. He also built a gate-tower on the eastern side (Cv.lxxxi.59f).
In the fourteenth century Alagakkonára seems to have bestowed great patronage on the monastery, and to have done many things for its improvement (See Ceylon Antiquary and Literary Register i.152; ii.149, 182).
Even in the fifteenth century the monastery was evidently considered one of the chief centres of the Sangha in Ceylon, for we find that the monks, sent by Dhammaceti from Rámańńa to Ceylon, received their ordination in the símá of Kalyáni-vihára, and that on their return they consecrated a símá in Pegu known as the Kalyáni-símá (Bode, op. cit., 38).