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Mahinda Rajapaksa Mahinda Rajapaksa (; ; born Percy Mahendra Rajapaksa; 18 November 1945) is a Sri Lankan politician. He served as the sixth President of Sri Lanka from 2005 to 2015; the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka from 2004 to 2005, 2018, and 2019 to 2022; the ...

, former Sri Lankan President *

Mahinda Amaraweera Mahinda Amaraweera ( Sinhala:මහින්ද අමරවීර,Tamil: மஹிந்த அமரவீர; born 12 February 1962) is a Sri Lankan politician. He was the cabinet Minister of Agriculture. He is also a member of the Parliame ...

, Sri Lankan politician *

Mahinda Samarasinghe His Excellency Mahinda Buddhadasa Samarasinghe (; born 30 January 1956) is a former MP and the current Ambassador of Sri Lanka to the United States and Mexico and High Commissioner to Trinidad and Tobago. Prior to his diplomatic appointment, ...

, Sri Lankan politician * Mahinda Ratnatilaka, Sri Lankan politician *

Mahinda Wijesekara Mahinda Wijesekera is a Sri Lankan politician, former Fisheries cabinet minister and a former member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka. In 2001, Wijesekara left the President Chandrika Kumaratunga Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga (; ; bor ...

, Sri Lankan politician * Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena, Sri Lankan politician *

Mahinda V of Anuradhapura Mahinda V was King of Anuradhapura in the 11th century. He was the last king of the Anuradhapura Kingdom as well as from the House of Lambakanna II. In 993, he fled to Ruhuna, the southern part of the country, following a large scale mutiny by ...

, Sri Lankan king * Mahindananda Aluthgamage, Sri Lankan politician *

Mahinda (Buddhist monk) Mahinda () (285 BCE – 205 BCE) was an Indian Buddhist monk depicted in Buddhist sources as bringing Buddhism to Sri Lanka. He was a Mauryan prince and the first-born son of Emperor Ashoka from his first wife Queen Devi, and the older brot ...

(3rd Century BCE), Buddhist monk who introduced the Pali Canon to Sri Lanka * S. Mahinda (1901-1951), Theravada Buddhist monk born in Sikkim

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* ''Mahinda'' (species), a genus of wasp in Amiseginae subfamilia, Chrysididae familia *

Mahinda College Mahinda College is a Buddhist boys' school in Galle, Sri Lanka. The school was established on 1 March 1892 by the Buddhist Theosophical Society led by Colonel Henry Steel Olcott. As of today it is a National school (Sri Lanka), national school whi ...

, a Buddhist boys' school in Galle

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