Savakanmaindan

Savakanmaindan
King of Tambralinga
Reign1262–1277
Coronation1262
PredecessorChandrabhanu
SuccessorSri Thammasokaraj
(as King of Nakhon Si Thammarat)
King of Jaffna
Reign1262–1277
PredecessorChandrabhanu
SuccessorKulasekara Cinkaiariyan
BornTambralinga
Died1277
HousePadmavamsa (Lotus) dynasty
FatherChandrabhanu
ReligionBuddhism

Savakanmaindan (or Savakan Maindan, Saavanmaindan and Javakanmaindan; died 1277) was a monarch of the kingdoms of Tambralinga and Jaffna.[1] He was the son of the Savakan king Chandrabhanu of Tambralinga of the Padmavamsa (lotus dynasty),[2] Captured northern Sri Lankan in 1255 AD. During his rule of Jaffna, the Venetian traveller Marco Polo visited northeastern Sri Lanka.

  1. ^ Kallidaikurichi Aiyah Nilakanta Sastri (1929). The Pāṇḍyan kingdom from the earliest times to the sixteenth century. pp.176
  2. ^ Cœdès, George (1968). The Indianized states of Southeast Asia. University of Hawaii Press. p. 184. ISBN 9780824803681. belonging to the family of the lotus (padmavamsa)