All these people were carrying on a lot of construction work, as if they were competing against each other. Meanwhile, King Rajasinghe, once again started draining the water of the Beira Lake. First ...

Meanwhile, Konnappu Bandara, who was named Don Juan of Austria, ascended the throne of Kandy. King Rajasinghe sent an army against him. That army could not go even as far as Balana. Konnappu Bandara’s ...

Some hold the view, that his sudden death was a good end to the disgusted life of King Rajasinghe. In actual fact, the people were so disgusted with the king, that they did not attempt to treat his ...

With the fall of the Kandyan Kingdom, the Kandyan Convention, ceremonially signed on March 10, 1815, completed the annexation ...

Ananda Abayaratna recounts how a national treasure, the crown of King Rajasinghe II, was lost forever. Pic by Shane Seneviratne Fifty years ago, in the morning of September 19, 1961, the assistant ...

King Rajasinghe was planning to capture the Kandyan Kingdom.Karaliyadde, then King of Kandy had kept a small platoon of Portuguese soldiers, for his safety. Veera Surendra of Peradeniya, who was one ...

Ironically, King Sri Wickrama Rajasinghe belonged to the same Nayak clan which built the fort. The interior of the tomb The fort is considered to be among the best examples of military architecture in ...

They somehow suspected that the king of Jaffna had some connection with the king of Kandy. Meanwhile as Sitawaka Rajasinghe had no son to succeed him, the kingdom had no king for sometime. Trouble ...

But the king’s choice was Prince Tikiri Bandara. As a raw youth, this prince had displayed his skills. He was quite clever in managing the affairs of the army. Because of this, he won the epithet – ...

The Ran Kadu Poojawa (Offering of the Golden Sword) held on August 23 at the Ran Kadu Paththini Temple in Kaduwela was to commemorate the 449th anniversary of the Mulleriyawa Battle in 1562, when King ...

This brought an end to the rule of Lankan Royalty. British propaganda successfully portrayed King Sri Vikrama Rajasinghe as a “cruel Tamil tyrant” despite evidence of his achievements in ...