Left-arm spinner Rangana Herath had Ahmed Shehzad caught behind for 9 to leave Pakistan struggling at 11/1 at the break, still trailing by 212 runs.
Resuming from 318/4 overnight, Sri Lanka lost the last six wickets for 70 runs and was all out for 388.
Mahela Jayawardene overcame pain in his stitched left hand to score 129 off 278 balls with 15 fours before being bowled by Saeed Ajmal while attempting a reverse sweep in a superb knock spanning 7 1/2 hours.
Sri Lanka's slump began in the second over of the day with captain Angelo Mathews edging seamer Rahat Ali to wicketkeeper Sarfraz Ahmed without adding to his overnight score of 42. Mathews was dropped on 6 by Sarfraz on Thursday and went on to add 93 runs with Jayawardene for the fifth wicket.
Prasanna Jayawardene was undone for 9 by Junaid Khan's sharp delivery and was clean bowled, then Herath tried to go for a quick single and was run out for 6 at 348/7.
Khan failed in an attempt to win an lbw decision through a TV referral against Jayawardene after the batsman added three to his overnight 106, and in the same over Shaminda Eranga cut the left-arm seamer to the third man boundary to extend the lead to 200. Eranga made 14.
Ajmal, who bowled 49 wicketless overs in the second innings of the drawn first test last week, had to wait a further 28 overs before he uprooted Jayawardene's leg stump.
The last-wicket pair of Suranga Lakmal and Nuwan Pradeep frustrated Pakistan for nearly half an hour before Ajmal finally folded the innings by having Pradeep leg before wicket. He took 2-56.
Khan claimed 3-102, and Ali 2-131.
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