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Gothabhaya. Gothabhaya, also known as Meghavannabhaya, Gothakabhaya and Goluaba, was a king of the Anuradhapura Kingdom of Sri Lanka whose reign lasted from 254 to 267. During his reign, Gothabhaya renovated several temples and monasteries and also built a new temple. He is the last of three princes who seized the throne from King Vijaya Kumara ...
Gothabhaya, was an early monarch of Sri Lanka of the Kingdom of Ruhuna in the Southern region of the island. The Kingdom of Ruhuna was a Sub kingdom loyal to the King of Anuradhapura. See also. List of monarchs of Sri Lanka; External links. Kings & Rulers of Sri Lanka; Codrington's Short History of Ceylon
Principality of Ruhuna. The Principality of Ruhuna, also referred to as the Kingdom of Ruhuna, is a region of present-day Southern and Eastern Sri Lanka. It was the center of a flourishing civilisation and the cultural and economic centres of ancient Sri Lanka. Magama, Tissamaharama and Mahanagakula (now called as Ambalantota) were established ...
Anuradhapura Kingdom ( Sinhala: අනුරාධපුර රාජධානිය, translit: Anurādhapura Rājadhāniya, Tamil: அனுராதபுர இராச்சியம் ), named for its capital city, was the second established kingdom in ancient Sri Lanka related to the Sinhalese people.
Changing the name into Anuradhapura due to the expansion of settlement into a city during Sinhalese king Pandukabhaya (437 BCE). Anuradhapura stands for 'city of Anuradha' (Anuradha+pura). Early history. Anuradhapura is the best representation of the beginnings of pre-modern urbanization in Sri Lanka.
Mahasena, also known in some records as Mahasen, was a king of Sri Lanka who ruled the country from 277 to 304 CE. He started the construction of large tanks or reservoirs in Sri Lanka, [1] and built sixteen such tanks. [2] After becoming king, Mahasena discriminated the Buddhists belonging to the Theravada-school and destroyed several of their ...
Religion. Theravāda Buddhism. Siri Sangha Bodhi I, also known as Siri Sanghabodhi, was a monarch of Anuradhapura in the 3rd century, whose reign lasted from 252 to 254. [1] He succeeded Sangha Tissa I as King of Anuradhapura and was succeeded by Gothabhaya . Siri Sanghabodhi's story of devotion to Buddhism is told in the Mahāvaṃsa.
Pandukabhaya of Anuradhapura. Pandukabhaya was a king of Upatissa Nuwara and the first monarch of the Anuradhapura Kingdom and 6th over all of the island of Sri Lanka since the arrival of the Vijaya; he reigned from 437 BC to 367 BC. According to many historians and philosophers, he is the first truly Sri Lankan king since the Vijayan migration ...