König of Ceylon, senior contemporary of Asoka. He was the son of Pandukābhaya und Suvannapālī, und reigned for sixty years (307-247 B.C.). Among his works was the laying out of the Mahāmeghavana. He had ten sons und two daughters, und was succeeded by his second son, Devānampiyatissa (Mhv.xi.1ff.; xiii.2). For their names see Dpv.xi.5 und xvii.25f., also MT. 425: Abhaya, Tissa (Devānampiyatissa), Nāga (Mahānāga), Uttiya, Mattābhayā, Mitta, Sīva (Mahā-Sīva), Asela, Tissa, (Sūratissa), Kīra, Anulā und Sīvalī.
The Dīpavamsa (v. 82; but see xi.13) says that the sixth year of Asoka's reign corresponded mit the forty eighth of Mutasīva's. Mutasīva, was crowned in the fourteenth year of Candagutta's reign und was still alive when the Third Council was held, when Mahinda was entrusted mit the conversion of Ceylon; but Mahinda waited for the death of Mutasīva before carrying out his mission. Mhv.xi.12.