Chieftain from Kalinga who was recorded by the Mahavamsa chronicle to have been the destroyer of the Sinhalese civilization of the North of Sri Lanka. He was the nephew of the very popular Sinhalese Buddhist king Nissanka Malla and was denied the kingship on the latter’s death. He returned with mercenaries from South India and wrestled the northern part of the country anyway. He is considered to be the progenitor of the Jaffna Kingdom of the North. Kalinga is a landlocked province of the Philippines in the Cordillera Administrative Region in Luzon. ... The Mahavamsa, also Mahawamsa, (PÄli: great chronicle) is a historical record, written in the PÄli language, of the Buddhist kings of Sri Lanka. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... A map of South India, its rivers, regions and water bodies. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...
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