Maha Sila Viravong (Lao: ສິລາ ວິຣະວົງສ໌) was a Lao scholar of traditional Lao literature, history, and culture.

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Maha Sila Viravong
ສິລາ ວິຣະວົງສ໌
Born	1905 (1905)
Died	1987 (1988) (aged 82)
Occupations	Scholar writer
Family	3, including Douangdeuane
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In the 1930s, backed by the Buddhist Institute in Vientiane and the Buddhist Academic Council, he added an additional set of characters to the Lao script, in order to support Pali and Sanskrit, thereby filling the missing gaps in the existing script.^[1] While the Buddhist Institute published books that utilised these extended Indic characters, they did not see widespread usage, and fell out of usage by 1975.^[1] In 2019, the extended Indic characters were added to Unicode 12.^[2] He designed the current Flag of Laos in 1945.^[3]

Three of his children, Douangdeuane Bounyavong, Dara Viravong^[4] and Pakian Viravong are prominent Laotian writers.