The Kingdom of Anuradhapura was the longest-ruling monarchy of ancient Sri Lanka, whose irrigation-fed civilization preserved Theravada Buddhism for over a millennium and made Sri Lanka a center of Buddhist scholarship and pilgrimage.
The Kingdom of Anuradhapura ended in 1017 CE when the Chola emperor Rajendra Chola I conquered Sri Lanka, sacking the capital Anuradhapura and capturing the Sinhalese king Mahinda V, after which the island's political centre shifted to Polonnaruwa under Chola rule.
The atlas holds 3 border frames for Kingdom of Anuradhapura — the shape you scrub through changes in 377 BC · 162 BC · 250.
The standard one-volume history of Sri Lanka, covering the Anuradhapura and Polonnaruwa kingdoms in the long sweep from settlement to the present.
De Silva's revised single-volume history is the standard scholarly account of the island from antiquity to the present.