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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.
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 ...
King from King until Relationship with predecessor(s) Dutugamunu the Great (a.k.a. Dutta Gamini or Dutugemunu or Duttagamini Abaya)--161 BCE: 137 BCE *Defeated Elara *Eldest son of Kavan Tissa *Originally the ruler of Ruhuna Saddha Tissa--137 BCE: 119 BCE *Brother of Dutugemunu Thulatthana (Tulna)--119 BCE: 119 BCE *Second son of Saddha Tissa ...
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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
The origins of the early Sinhalese kings are the settlement of North Indian Indo-Aryan immigrants to the island of Sri Lanka.Sri Lankan historian Senarath Paranavithana suggests, and according to the story in the Divyavadana, the immigrants were probably not led by a scion of a royal house in India, as told in the romantic legend, but rather may have been groups of adventurous and pioneering ...
The Sinhala kingdom ceased to exist by 1815, following the British takeover.While the Sinhala kingdom is claimed to have existed from 543 BCE to 1815 CE, other political entities claimed to have co-existed in Sri Lanka spanning certain partial periods, including the Jaffna kingdom (which existed 1215–1624 CE), [5] Vanni chieftaincies (which existed from the 12th century to 1803 CE) and the ...