[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Architecture and art](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art) › [Mediaeval Sinhalese Art](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.coomaraswamy-1908) › c7.3 # Mediaeval Sinhalese Art c7.3 Mediaeval Sinhalese Art c7.3 - **Language:** English ### [c7.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.coomaraswamy-1908.c7.3) At the close of the eighteenth century, the Kandyan kingdom consisted of ten \*disāvana\* or districts, each in charge of a \*Disāva\* (earl), and nine other districts (\*raṭa\*) each in charge of a chief usually known as the \*Raṭēmahatmaya\*. All these districts together correspond more or less with the area occupied by the present Central, Sabaragamuwa, Uva, North Central, North Western (part), and Eastern (part) provinces, \*i.e.\*, the whole of the mountainous districts and some part of the low-country commanded by the mountains, or which the Kandyan kings were otherwise able to protect. - [Previous: c7.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.coomaraswamy-1908.c7.2) - [Next: c7.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.coomaraswamy-1908.c7.4) - [Up: c7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.coomaraswamy-1908.c7) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.coomaraswamy-1908.c7.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.coomaraswamy-1908.c7.3) · Pramāṇa