- King
Rajasinghe II, also
known as
Rajasingha II (pre coronation,
Prince Dewa Astana/Dewarajasinghe), was a
Sinhalese King,
reigned 1629 – 6
December 1687;...
- the
Gajasingha (the lion with an
elephant trunk) to the left and the
Rajasingha (the
royal lion) to the
right holding two
royal five-tiered umbrellas...
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handed over to the Sri
Dalada Maligawa Wikimedia Commons has
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Vikrama Rajasinha. Last days of Sri
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- He was
succeeded by Jan
Thyszoon Payart. In 1637, the King of Kandy,
Rajasingha II,
approached the
Dutch East
India Company (VOC) for
military support...
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established on the island.
After many
bloody wars with the Portuguese, King
Rajasingha II
became convinced that
lasting peace with the
Portuguese was not possible...
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invited the
British into
Kandy and
supported their overthrow of Sri
Vikrama Rajasingha.
Governor Thomas Maitland, in
British Ceylon,
initiated extensive legal...
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Pattirippuwa was
built in 1802,
during the
reign of King Sri
Vickrama Rajasingha, by the
royal architect,
Devendra Moolacharya.
Moolacharya is also credited...
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there were new
gifts of land and
under the
patronage of King
Kirthi Sri
Rajasingha the
temple was rebuilt. It was
refurbished in the
first half of the 20th...
- of the
killed Portuguese soldiers were
piled before the
Sinhalese king
Rajasingha II. The battle,
which ended in
victory for the
Sinhalese army, was the...
- ground. The wall was
constructed during the
reign of King
Kirthi Sri
Rajasingha, to
protect it from wild elephants. The late Ven.
Pallegama Rewatha Thera...
