The queen wanted to flee to Gampola with Kusumasana Devi to ensure their safety.īut these ambitions were abruptly nullified.Īt Trincomalee, Karaliyadde Bandara and his queen succumbed to smallpox to be survived by his three-year-old daughter Kusumasena Devi under the care of the Portuguese. Karaliyada Bandara’s ambition has been to recapture Senkadagala with the military aid of the Portuguese and give Kusumasena Devi in marriage to his nephew, Yamasinghe Bandara who was with him in Trincomalee. He fled to Trincomalee Fort with the royal family under the protection of the Portuguese. Rajasinghe, with support from a Buddhist called Weerasundara Bandara and the Buddhist clergy, attacked Karaliyadda Bandara. He established good relationships with the Portuguese and King Dharmapala. She was the daughter of Karaliyadda Bandara, the ruler of Senkadagala who too was a Catholic. Her mother raised Kusumasana Devi to boost her individual identity.
Kusumasana Devi, since childhood nursed as a princess, was aware of her right to inherit her father’s throne. In Dharmapala’s time, the Roman Catholic faith began to take root in Rajasinghe’s time, Hinduism flourished. The Buddhist clergy moved the Buddha’s Tooth Relic from Sitawaka to Delgomuva Vihara for safety. However, Mahavamsa accuses Rajasinghe of patricide, murdering the Buddhist clergy, destroying Buddhist religious institutions with literary works and constructing Hindu Kovils. His ambition was to make Sri Lanka a strong unitary state. He was on the warpath to oust the Portuguese and subjugate the Senkadagala Kingdom.
Sitawaka Rajasingha (1580-1592) defeated the Portuguese army in the terrible battle in Mulleriya. In 1557, by a gift deed, he handed over his kingdom to the Portuguese King Don John. Kotte was under the grips of the Portuguese and the ruler of Kotte, Dharmapala (1551-1597) was a puppet king under them.ĭharmapala became a Roman Catholic. During this period Sri Lanka was a triumvirate (ruled by three): Kotte, Sitawaka and Senkadagala. It was a period of perilous wars, political mayhem, inordinate evil ambitions, conspiracy and strategic negotiations. Kusumasena Devi (1581-1613) survived during one of the worst periods in Sri Lankan history.
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