A Bandâra was a Great Officer in the
Amātya Mandalaya, or Sinhalese Council of State, in the
Sinhalese Kingdoms of premodern
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...
. A Bandâra was the sons of a chief in the
Sinhala Kingdom.
Other
In the
Sinhalese
Sinhala may refer to:
* Something of or related to the Sinhalese people of Sri Lanka
* Sinhalese people
* Sinhala language, one of the three official languages used in Sri Lanka
* Sinhala script, a writing system for the Sinhala language
** Sinha ...
Buddhist
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faith, the Bandāra deviyō are a group of guardian
deities
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See also
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Radala
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Sri Lankan titles
References
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Sinhalese Buddhist deities
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