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Mahasena was the younger son of King Gotabaya, who ruled the country from 253 to 266 CE. His elder brother and predecessor to the throne was King Jetthatissa, who was the king from 266 to 275. Mahasen and Jetthatissa were educated by a Buddhist monk named Sanghamitta, who was a follower of the Vaitulya doctrine.
During the two millennia of Sinhalese kingdoms, other political entities also existed on the island, including the Jaffna Kingdom, [9] the Vanni chieftaincies and the Portuguese and Dutch colonies. [10] These political entities are considered separate from the Sinhala Kingdoms. [11] [12] A separate page lists the monarchs of the Jaffna Kingdom.
Mahasen may refer to: Kartikeya, also known as Mahasen or Mahasena from maha (great) + sena (army), the Hindu god of war; Mahasena of Anuradhapura, a king of Sri Lanka who ruled the country from 277 to 304 AD; Cyclone Mahasen, a cyclonic storm in the Bay of Bengal in 2013, renamed Cyclone Viyaru due to apparent negative showing of the ...
Sri Lanka has been ruled by various monarchial lines, at some times with different lines ruling different parts of the modern state, or the entire state.. The Sinhalese monarchy was established in 543 BC with Prince Vijaya founding the Kingdom of Tambapanni and ended with Sri Vickrama Rajasinghe of Kandy in 1815 with the signing of the Kandyan Convention.
Mahasena, a legendary king of the Kataragama region in Sri Lanka said to have ruled during the 6th century BCE; Mahasena of Anuradhapura, a historical king of Sri Lanka who ruled from 275 to 301 CE; Mahasena-gupta, a ruler of the Later Gupta dynasty in India; Mahasena, a genus of bagworm moth; Chaophraya Mahasena, a Thai noble title
10 Years 10 9: Mahasiva: Anuradhapura: Vijaya: 257 BC 247 BC 3,650 10 Years 11 10: Suratissa (Swarnapinda Tissa) Anuradhapura: Vijaya: 247 BC 237 BC 3,650 10 Years 12 11: Sena and Guttika: Anuradhapura: 237 BC 215 BC 8,030 22 Years 13 12: Asela: Anuradhapura: Vijaya: 215 BC 205 BC 3,650 10 Years 14 13: Elara: Anuradhapura: Chola dynasty: 205 BC ...
Geiger's Sinhala student G. C. Mendis was more openly skeptical about certain portions of the text, specifically citing the story of the Sinhala ancestor Vijaya as being too remote historically from its source and too similar to an epic poem or other literary creation to be seriously regarded as history.
At the time of King Mahasen, the village was known as "Bakka amuna - Bakka Dam". The city got its name from the reservoir called Bak Amuna Pathaha which had a large basin (reservoir). Today this reservoir has been rehabilitated as a tank and it belongs to the Minneriya Giritale Forest Reserve.