Posts

Showing posts from February, 2018

Kandy

Image
Sena Sammatha Wickramabahu  (1473–1511) was the first king of the  Kingdom of Kandy , he was a royal from the Kotte Royal Blood line and ruled Kandy as a semi-independent kingdom under the  Kingdom of Kotte , making it the new capital of the Kandyan Kingdom. Sena Sammatha Wickramabahu was followed by his son  Jayaweera Astana (1511–1551) and then by  Karaliyadde Bandara  (1551–1581) who was succeeded by his daughter  Dona Catherina of Kandy  (1581–1581). Dona Catherina was succeeded by  Rajasinha I . Rajasinha I however, preferred to rule the hill country from the  Kingdom of Sitawaka  on the west of the island. A period of turmoil for power ended with the ascent to the throne by Konappu Bandara who came to be known as  Vimaladharmasuriya I . Having embraced Buddhism, he consolidated his authority further by bringing the  tooth relic of the Lord Buddha  to Kandy from a place called Delgamuwa. [3] In 1592 Kandy ...