King Sri Rajadhi Rajasinha
1782 - 1798
Ageing
King Sri Vikrama Rajasinha
1798 - 1815
Ended

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King Sri Vikrama Rajasinha

House of Kandy Nayakar | Kandy - (1798 - 1815)

Sri Vikrama Rajasinha (1780 - January 30, 1832, born Kannasamy Nayaka) was the last of four Kings, to rule the last Sinhalese monarchy of the Kingdom of Kandy in Sri Lanka. The Nayak Kings were Telugu Buddhists[1] that spoke Tamil. The King was eventually deposed by the British under the terms of the Kandyan Convention, in 1815, ending over 2300 years of Sinhalese monarchy on the island. The island was incorporated into the British Empire, and Sri Vikrama Rajasinha was succeeded by George III, as monarch of British Ceylon.
 
Prior to his coronation in 1798, Sri Vikrama Rajasinha was known as Prince Kannasamy. He was a member of the Madurai royal family and the nephew of Sri Rajadhi Rajasinha. He succeed his uncle as the King of Kandy in 1798 at the age of eighteen.
 
On March 2, the Kingdom was ceded to the British and Sri Vikrama Rajasinha was deposed and taken as a royal prisoner by the British to Vellore Fort in southern India. He lived on a small allowance given to him with his two queens by the British Government. He died of dropsy on January 30, 1832 aged 52 years.
 
The current Flag of Sri Lanka incorporates Sri Vikrama Rajasinha's Royal Standard. In September 1945 it was proposed in an address to the State Council that the flag be adopted as Sri Lanka's national flag:
 
"This House is of opinion that the Royal Standard of King Sri Vikrama Rajasinha depicting a yellow lion passant holding a sword in its right paw on a red background, which was removed to England after the Convention of 1815, should once again be adopted as the official flag of Free Lanka."
 
Kandy Lake, an artificial lake overlooking the palace in Kandy was commissioned by Sri Vikrama Rajasinha.
 
During Sri Vikrama Rajasinha's time as a royal prisoner in Vellore Fort he received a privy purse, which his descendants continued to receive from the Government of Ceylon until 1965. Muthu Mandapam is a memorial built around the tombstone of Sri Vikrama Rajasinha, the last Telugu ruler of Kandy. Situated on the bank Palar River, it is just one km north of Vellore town.
 
During Sri Vikrama Rajasinha's reign, Tamil was used as one of the court languages in Kandy.
 
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Queen Palace of Kandy
Kandy,

ඛේදජනක ඉරණමක් අත්වූ ලංකාවේ අවසන් රජුවූ ශ්‍රී වික්‍රම රාජසිංහ රජුගේ අග මෙහෙසියවූ වෙන්කත රෙංගම්මාල් බිසවටද ඇයගේ පරිහරණය සඳහාම  වෙන්වූ මාලිගයක් තිබී ඇත. මහනුවර ජාතික කෞතුකාගාරයට හා...


Built : King Sri Vikrama Rajasinha,

Temple of the Tooth
Kandy,

Sri Dalada Maligawa or the Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic is a Buddhist temple in the city of Kandy, Sri Lanka. It is located in the royal palace complex of the former Kingdom of Kandy, which houses the relic of the tooth of the Buddha. Since ancient times, the relic has played an important role in local politics because it is believed that whoever holds the relic holds the governance of the country. Kandy was the last capital of the Sri Lankan kings and is a World Heritage Site mainly...


Built : King Vimaladharmasuriya I,
Recovered : King Rajasinha II,
Reconstruction : King Sri Vira Parakrama Narendra Singha,
Added : King Sri Vikrama Rajasinha,

 
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