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Mahâ Dissâvas of Kingdom of Kandy
A Kandyan Maha Dissava and a Buddhist monk in the early 19th century.
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Amātya Mandalaya
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The Monarch
Monarchical Sri Lanka
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The Mahâ Dissâvas was a Great Officer in the Amātya Mandalaya, or Sinhalese Council of State, in the Sinhalese Kingdoms of monarchical Sri Lanka. Like many of the existing high offices at the time it had combined legislative and judicial powers and functioned primarily equivalent to that of a Provincial governor.[1] The office of Dissava was retained under the successive European colonial powers, namely the Portuguese Empire, the Dutch East India Company and the British Empire. A Dissava was the governor a province known as a Disavanies. With his province, the Dissava held both executive and judicial authority.
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Korale Mahaththaya there after Rate Mahatmaya and finally appointed as Dissava. Maduwanwala claimed to have inherited an 83,000 acre "nindagama" or land...
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of the Kandy to Ehelepola Maha Disawe and Ehelepola Kumarihamy. He was the second son of Ehelepola Maha Disawe, the Dissava of Sabaragamuwa under the...
formally crowned. Under this new king, Keppetipola was appointed as the Maha Adhikaram (Chief Minister) and the rebels were urged to fight against British...
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for the purpose of advancing Buddhism in Sri Lanka, also building the Raja Maha Vihara (Gangarama) was built at Kandy. Kirti built the existing inner temple...
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to people. As people didn't know many things, monks (Specially Sangaraja Maha Nahimi) advised the kings to paint the walls of the temples with Jataka Stories...
Bo House of Dinajara Nayaks of Kandy Amātya Mandalaya Maha Adigar Maha Mohottala MahaDissava Dugganna Nilame Bandāra Other Rate Mahatmaya Badde Lekams...
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