Kingdom of Dambadeniya Dambadeniya Kingdom (Sinhala: දඹදෙණිය රාජධානිය/ යුගය; Tamil: தம்பதெனிய அரசு) was the third kingdom that flourished in Sri Lanka during the 13th-14th centuries (from 1232 A.D. to 1341 A.D.). The kingdom was mainly ruled through three capitals; viz: Dambadeniya , Yapahuwa , and Kurunegala. Dambadeniya Polonnaruwa Kingdom , the second kingdom of Sri Lanka was abandoned in the 13th century mainly due to its susceptibility to invasions from South India. Also, the struggles to grab the power of the throne among the rulers who came after King Nissankamalla (1187-1196 A.D.) had already put the country's political environment into an unstable
state (Dias et al., 2016). Magha (1215–1236 A.D.) of Kalinga (India) who came with a large
army from Malabar (Kerala) easily invaded Sri Lanka during this period and as a result of that, Polonnaruwa collapsed and Dambadeniya became the new and the third kingdom of the country (Dias et al., 2016; Sudharmawathie, 2008). King Vijayabahu III (1232-1236 A.D.) …
