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 (1278)
HousePadmavamsa (Lotus) dynasty
FatherChandrabhanu
ReligionBuddhism

Savakanmaindan (or Savakan Maindan, Saavanmaindan and Javakanmaindan; reigned from 1262 - 1277) was a monarch of the kingdoms of Tambralinga and Jaffna. He was the son of the Savakan king Chandrabhanu of Tambralinga of the Padmavamsa (lotus dynasty), Captured northern Sri Lankan in 1255 AD. During his rule of Jaffna, the Venetian traveller Marco Polo visited northeastern Sri Lanka.