Savakanmaindan (or Savakan Maindan, Saavanmaindan and Javakanmaindan; died 1277) was a monarch of the kingdoms of Tambralinga and Jaffna.
[1] He was the son of the Savakan king Chandrabhanu of Tambralinga of the Padmavamsa (lotus dynasty),[2] Captured northern Sri Lankan in 1255 AD.
During his rule of Jaffna, the Venetian traveller Marco Polo visited northeastern Sri Lanka.
Chandrabhanu moved north after his failure at invading southern kingdoms of Ceylon and secured the Jaffna throne for himself around 1255.
When Savakamaindan embarked on another invasion of the south, the Pandyas under King Maravarman Kulasekara Pandyan I again invaded and defeated his forces in the late 1270s.