Anurādhapura IV
Displayed: 617 CE
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General Description “Indeed Dhātusena (455–73) had hardly consolidated his position when he was murdered by his son Kassapa who usurped the throne at Anurādhapura at the expense of Moggallāna I, Kassapa’s brother, whom Dhātusena had been grooming as his legitimate successor. There was, for a brief period under Upatissa II (517–18) and his successors, a return of the Lambakaṇṇas to power, but Mahānāga (569–71) re-established Moriya control. His immediate successors Aggabodhi I (571–604) and Aggdobhi II (604–14) managed to maintain the Moriya grip on the Anurādhapura throne but not to consolidate their position, for the Lambakaṇṇas were in fact always a formidable threat, and under Moggallāna III (614–17) they overthrew Saṅghatissa II (614), who proved to be the last of the Moriya kings. It took nearly six decades of devastating civil war for the Lambakaṇṇas to re-establish their supremacy, but having done so they maintained their pre-eminence once again over a great length of time. Indeed the second Lambakaṇṇa dynasty established by Mānavamma gave the island two centuries of comparatively stable government. In the last phase of the dynasty’s spell of power the severest tests that confronted it came from South India invaders and not local rivals.” [1]
[1]: (De Silva 1981, 18-19) De Silva, K.M. 1981. A History of Sri Lanka. London: C. Hurst & Company, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. Seshat URL: https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/collections/7F5SEVNA/items/4R6DQVHZ/collection
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| Succeeding Entity | Polonnaruva | Confident | 614 CE 1017 CE | ||||||||
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| Relationship to Preceding Entity | continuity | Confident | 614 CE 1017 CE | ||||||||
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| Degree of Centralization | nominal | Confident | 614 CE 1017 CE | ||||||||
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| Degree of Centralization | loose | Confident | 614 CE 1017 CE | ||||||||
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| Full Time Bureaucrat | Present | Inferred | 614 CE 1017 CE | ||||||||
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| Irrigation System | Present | Confident | 614 CE 1017 CE | ||||||||
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| Drinking Water Supply System | Present | Confident | 614 CE 1017 CE | ||||||||
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| Utilitarian Public Building | Present | Confident | 614 CE 1017 CE | ||||||||
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| Symbolic Building | Present | Confident | 614 CE 1017 CE | ||||||||
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| Other Utilitarian Public Building | Present | Confident | 614 CE 1017 CE | ||||||||
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| Written Record | Present | Confident | 614 CE 1017 CE | ||||||||
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| Script | Present | Confident | 614 CE 1017 CE | ||||||||
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| Phonetic Alphabetic Writing | Present | Confident | 614 CE 1017 CE | ||||||||
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| Non Phonetic Writing | Absent | Confident | 614 CE 1017 CE | ||||||||
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| Sacred Text | Present | Confident | 614 CE 1017 CE | ||||||||
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| Religious Literature | Present | Confident | 614 CE 1017 CE | ||||||||
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| Fiction | Present | Confident | 614 CE 1017 CE | ||||||||
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| Moralizing Enforcement is Broad | Present | Confident | 614 CE 1017 CE | ||||||||
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| Moralizing Supernatural Concern is Primary | Present | Confident | 614 CE 1017 CE | ||||||||
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| Moralizing Enforcement is Agentic | Absent | Confident | 614 CE 1017 CE | ||||||||
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| Moralizing Enforcement in This Life | Present | Confident | 614 CE 1017 CE | ||||||||
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| Moralizing Supernatural Punishment And Reward | Present | Confident | 614 CE 1017 CE | ||||||||
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| Moralizing Religion Adopted by Commoners | Present | Confident | 614 CE 1017 CE | ||||||||
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| Moralizing Enforcement is Targeted | Present | Confident | 614 CE 1017 CE | ||||||||
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| Moralizing Enforcement in Afterlife | Present | Confident | 614 CE 1017 CE | ||||||||
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| Moralizing Religion Adopted by Elites | Present | Confident | 614 CE 1017 CE | ||||||||
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| Moralizing Enforcement of Rulers | Present | Confident | 614 CE 1017 CE | ||||||||
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| Moralizing Enforcement is Certain | Present | Confident | 614 CE 1017 CE | ||||||||
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