Maha Dissava

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Mahâ Dissâvas of Kingdom of Kandy
A Kandyan Maha Dissava and a Buddhist monk in the early 19th century.
Member of	Amātya Mandalaya
Reports to	The Monarch
Appointer	The Monarch

Monarchical Sri Lanka
Part of a series on the politics and government of the Sinhala Kingdom
Royal Court
Monarch	King
Queen consort	Randolis
Sub king / Heir apparent	Yuvaraja
Concubinage	Yakadadoli
Amātya Mandalaya (Council of State)
1st Prime Minister	Pallegampahê Mahâ Nilamê
2nd Prime Minister	Udagampahê Mahâ Nilamê
Chief Secretary	Mahâ Mohottâla
Provincial Governors	Mahâ Dissâvas
Royal Household Officers	Dugganna Nilamês
Sons of Chiefs	Bandâras
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The Mahâ Dissâvas was a Great Officer in the Amātya Mandalaya, or Sinhalese Council of State, in the Sinhalese Kingdoms of monarchical Sri Lanka. Like many of the existing high offices at the time it had combined legislative and judicial powers and functioned primarily equivalent to that of a Provincial governor.^[1] The office of Dissava was retained under the successive European colonial powers, namely the Portuguese Empire, the Dutch East India Company and the British Empire. A Dissava was the governor a province known as a Disavanies. With his province, the Dissava held both executive and judicial authority.