An influential politician from Kegalle bought this land blocked out and sold for a housing scheme and today there are several houses built here and the seven-acre block of this cultural heritage site is encroached by the people and about fifteen perches is reserved. My several attempts to get this site protected by the Cultural Ministry was not successful due to official lethargy and lack of political support.
The politicians in power will not handle this problem as they fear that they will lose the manapa votes of the encroachers if they interfere on this matter. She became an orphan at a very early age of her childhood and was brought up in a Catholic orphanage in Mannar after being baptizd as Dona Catherina. How did she go to the distant place Mannar having been born in the salubrious Kandyan hills.
This is the story of the last Queen of Senkadagala kingdom. Senasammatha was succeeded by his son Jayaweera Jayaweera died leaving no heir to the throne. Hence king Thunayama succeeded to the throne Jayaweera II alias Karalliyadda Bandara expelled Thunayama who ruled in Pallepitiya and Poddalgoda in present Uda Dumbara area and succeeded to the throne to rule from Senkadagala It is from this period that the Dutch historian Phillip Bauldius and the Portuguese historian Father Queorose records our history.
Asgiri Thalpatha is the most authentic record of Senkadagala history. Buwanekabahu had married a princess from Keeravella for the first time and a sister of Mayadunne his second marriage. This led to a matrimonial alliance between Kotte and Senkadagala as Jayaweera II too had married a princess from Keeravella.
The king went to Goa where he died in The rebels placed on the throne Weera Wickrama Bahu alias Rankodipathirannehe, son of Thunayama who ruled for 36 years from His daughter is Kusumasana Devi about whom this commemorative article is written. Rajasinghe I of Seethawaka came to Senkadagala in and placed Weerasundera Bandara in the throne.
Jayaweera III now deposed with his teenage daughter queen and nephew Yamasinghe Bandara fled to Mannar where the queen and the king died of small-pox. The Portugese Nuns in Mannar undertook the custody of the little princess, baptized her as Dona Catherina and gave her an education befitting a queen. She learnt under the Portuguese the languages, religions, music, state craft and diplomacy, etiquettes and all other intricate details befitting a would be queen.
The Portuguese had at the back of their mind a plan to give her in marriage to a Portuguese General at the appropriate time and place her in the Senkadagala throne so that they achieve what they failed by might by sheer diplomatic manoeuvres.
K usumasana Devi was also known as Kamalasana Devie or Lokanatha Maha Biso Bandara in the Senkadagala kingdom was finally brought to Senkadagala from Mannar when she was about 12 years with the hope of getting her married to a Portuguese General and keeping her in the Senkadagala throne. But however, the Portuguese plans were thwarted and I quote Mr. Naganathan from the Daily News of 7th September It is relevant to speculate on the level of national consciousness that would have survived among the Sinhala people if the Sinhala state had ended with the Donation of Dharmapala I in By her marriage to Wimala Dharmasuriya she had four sons and two daughters.
Rajasuriya was drowned in Mahaweli and Udumale Asthana died when young. Kumarasinghe was sub king of Uva and Wijeyapala sub king Matale They both took as their queens the two daughters of Pararajasekeran Jaffna sub king. Wijayapala fled to Goa for fear of Rajasinghe II.
He embraced Christianity under the name of Don Thiogosdo. Kumarasinghe was sub king of Uva and Wijeyapala sub king Matale They both took as their queens the two daughters of Pararajasekeran Jaffna sub king.
Wijayapala fled to Goa for fear of Rajasinghe II. He embraced Christianity under the name of Don Thiogosdo. Kumarasinghe too fled to Goa and died as a Christian. She had matrimonial connections to Jaffna through the marriage of her two sons. This queen breath her last at Welimannatota palace in Kegalle on the 21st July and her last rites performed on the following day. A seven and a half acre site was declared as an Archeological reserve by H.
The Meda Dumbara Pradeshiya Sabha has taken steps to name a road in her memory. The government should at least take action to issue a postal stamp in honour of the last queen of Senkadagala. K usumasana Devi was also known as Kamalasana Devie or Lokanatha Maha Biso Bandara in the Senkadagala kingdom was finally brought to Senkadagala from Mannar when she was about 12 years with the hope of getting her married to a Portuguese General and keeping her in the Senkadagala throne.
The former G. Kuruppu allotted with untold difficulty and kept back a mere half an acre of this historical site to build an edifice to commemorate our first Catholic Queen of Kande Uda Pas Rata. This was in order to continue lighting an oil lamp in perpetual memory of Queen Dona Catherina, as was done for the last several centuries, under an old gnarled tree. Queen Dona Catherina left the palace of Kandy after her second husband King Senarat poisoned her eldest son prince Maha Asthana — the heir to throne, in order to the pave the way to install his own son prince Rajasinghe.
She built this palace at Welimannathota, where she lived with her children after abandoning King Senarat. Queen Dona Catherina was the sole child survivor of a smallpox epidemic which wiped out her entire family, the family of Karaliyadde Bandara.
As an orphan she was brought up by the Nuns of the convent at Mannar. Queen Dona Catherina during her last illness travelled in the Royal palanquin from her palace at Welimannathota to visit her Royal Vedarala at Hettimulla close by. On her death bed she appointed Kuruwita Rala, the second prince of Uva and prince, Marcellous of Migonna as her regents and guardians of her children. He was Antonio Barreto, a lascoreen from Negombo who rose to this prestigious royal position as the second prince of Uva, due to his courage and devotion to the Royal Kandyan Family.
She was finally laid to rest in the mausoleum built by Kuruwita Rala in the palace premises at Welimannathota vide Baldeus and Constantinu Hatana. Every effort was made to preserve this declared archaeological site but it was of no avail.
The rebels placed on the throne Weera Wickrama Bahu alias Rankodipathirannehe, son of Thunayama who ruled for 36 years from His daughter is Kusumasana Devi about whom this commemorative article is written. Rajasinghe I of Seethawaka came to Senkadagala in and placed Weerasundera Bandara in the throne. Jayaweera III now deposed with his teenage daughter queen and nephew Yamasinghe Bandara fled to Mannar where the queen and the king died of small-pox. The Portugese Nuns in Mannar undertook the custody of the little princess, baptized her as Dona Catherina and gave her an education befitting a queen.
She learnt under the Portuguese the languages, religions, music, state craft and diplomacy, etiquettes and all other intricate details befitting a would be queen. The Portuguese had at the back of their mind a plan to give her in marriage to a Portuguese General at the appropriate time and place her in the Senkadagala throne so that they achieve what they failed by might by sheer diplomatic manoeuvres.
Kusumasana Devi was also known as Kamalasana Devie or Lokanatha Maha Biso Bandara in the Senkadagala kingdom was finally brought to Senkadagala from Mannar when she was about 12 years with the hope of getting her married to a Portuguese General and keeping her in the Senkadagala throne.
But however, the Portuguese plans were thwarted and I quote Mr. Naganathan from the Daily News of 7th September It is relevant to speculate on the level of national consciousness that would have survived among the Sinhala people if the Sinhala state had ended with the Donation of Dharmapala I in By her marriage to Wimala Dharmasuriya she had four sons and two daughters.
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