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Kingdom of Kotte ජයවර්ධනපුර කෝට්ටේ ඉතිහාසයෙන් කොටසක්


Kingdom of Kotte
Kingdom of Kotte ජයවර්ධනපුර කෝට්ටේ ඉතිහාසයෙන් කොටසක් 

Parakramabahu VI first became the king of Raigama in 1412, then in 1415 he made Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte his capital. The King upgraded the existing citadel and built a new royal palace. Parakramabahu VI waited until ties between the Vijayanagara Empire and Jaffna kingdom were severed. First he captured the Vanni and made its leaders loyal to him. Sapumal Kumaraya was the commander of the Kotte army at the time. Tamil served as one of the court languages of the Kotte kingdom at this time.

Rise

In 1450, Parakramabahu VI had, with his conquest of the Jaffna kingdom in northern Sri Lanka, unified all of Sri Lanka. At its height, the Kingdom oversaw one of greatest eras of the Sinhalese literature. Notable poets at the time were Buddhist monks such as Thotagamuwe Sri Rahula Thera, Weedagama Maihree thero, and Karagala Wanarathana thero. By 1477, however, 10 years after the death of Parakramabahu VI, regional kingdoms became more powerful. Most notably a new Kingdom was founded in central hill-country of the island by Senasammatha Wickremabahu who successfully led a rebellion against the Kotte Kingdom in 1469.




පළමුවන පරාක්රමබාහු රජතුමා පළමුවෙන් 1412 දී රයිගම රජු බවට පත් විය. ඉන්පසුව 1415 දී ශ්රී ජයවර්ධනපුර කෝට්ටේ අගනුවර බවට පත් කළේය. රජ කිතුල් පාලම නවීකරණය කරන ලද අතර නව රාජකීය මාළිගාවක් ඉදිකරන ලදී. විජයගර අධිරාජ්යය හා යාපන රාජධානිය අතර සබඳතා විසුරුවා හැරීමට පරාක්රමබාහු බලා සිටියහ. මුලින්ම ඔහු වන්නිය අල්ලාගත් අතර ඔහුගේ නායකත්වයට පක්ෂපාත විය. කෝපෙට් හමුදාවේ අණදෙන නිලධාරි වූයේ සපුමල් කුමරියයි. කෝට්ටේ රාජධානියේ අධිකරණ භාෂාවක් ලෙස දමිළ සේවය කළහ. ඉහළ 1450 දී යාපනය අර්ධද්වීපයේ උතුරු රාජධානිය අල්ලා ගැනීමෙන් වන පරාක්රමබාහු විසින් සියලු ශ්රී ලංකාව ඒකාබද්ධ කරන ලදී. එහි උස, රාජකීය සාහිත්යයේ ශ්රේෂ්ඨතම යුගය නම් රාජධානිය අධීක්ෂණය කිරීමයි. එදා ටෝටගම්වෙවී ශ්රී රාහුල හිමියන්, වෙදගම මයිහී හිමියන් සහ කරගල වානරතන ස්වාමීන් වහන්සේ වැනි බෞද්ධ භික්ෂූන් වහන්සේලා විය. කෙසේ වෙතත්, 1477 වන විට පරාක්රමබාහුගේ මරණයෙන් වසර 10 කට පසුව ප්රාදේශීය රාජධානි වඩාත් බලවත් විය. 1469 දී කෝට්ටේ රාජධානියට එරෙහි කැරැල්ලක් සාර්ථකව මෙහෙයවූ සේනාසමතා වික්රමබාහු විසින් දිවයිනේ මධ්යම කඳුකරයේ නව රාජධානියක් පිහිටුවනු ලැබීය.

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