The Royal Family of Jaffna

Family Tree of Prince Remigius Kanagarajah

The Coat of Arms

GENEALOGY OF THE ROYAL HOUSE OF JAFFNA

THE ARYA CAKRAVARTI DYNASTY

01 CINKAI ARYA CAKRAVARTI VIJAYA KULANKAI circa 1215-1240
CEKARACACEKARAN (I)
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02 CINKAI ARYA CAKRAVARTI KULASEKARA 1240-1256
PARARACACEKARAN (I)
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03 CINKAI ARYA CAKRAVARTI KULOTTUNGA 1256-1279
CEKARACACEKARAN (II)
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04 CINKAI ARYA CAKRAVARTI VIKKRAMA 1279-1302
PARARACACEKARAN (II)
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05 CINKAI ARYA CAKRAVARTI VAROTAYA 1302-1325
CEKARACACEKARAN (III)
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06 CINKAI ARYA CAKRAVARTI MARTTANTA 1325-1348
PARARACACEKARAN (III)
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07 CINKAI ARYA CAKRAVARTI KUNAPUSANA 1348-1371
CEKARACACEKARAN (IV)
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08 CINKAI ARYA CAKRAVARTI VIROTAYA 1371-1380
PARARACACEKARAN (IV)
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09 CINKAI ARYA CAKRAVARTI JEYAVIRA 1380-1410
CEKARACACEKARAN (V)
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10 CINKAI ARYA CAKRAVARTI KUNAVIRA 1410-1440
PARARACACEKARAN (V)
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11 CINKAI ARYA CAKRAVARTI KANAGASURIYA 1440-1450 & 1467-1478
CEKARACACEKARAN (VI)
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SAPUMAL KUMARAYA alias CHAMPAKA PERUMAL 1450-1467


12 CINKAI ARYA CAKRAVARTI PARARACACEKARAN (VI) 1478-1519

Spouse # 1: ARASI RAJA LETCHUMI AMMAL
Paddaththukkuriya Ilavarasan Singha Bahu (Deceased at young age)
Paddaththukkuriya Ilavarasan Pandaram (Deceased at young age)

Spouse # 2: ARASI VALLI AMMAI ARASAKESARI
Ilavarasan Paranirupasinghan Pandaram
Ilavarasan (Name not known)
Ilavarasan (Name not known)
Ilavarasi Maragathavalli + Arasakesari
Arasakesari Veerasundara Mudali

Spouse # 3: IRAASAISTHIRII MANGATHAMMAL
Ilavarasan Cankili Raja (I)
Ilavarasi Paravai + Spouse (Name not known)
Ilavarasan Dom Luis (Left to Goa)
Ilavarasan (Name not known)

13 CINKAI ARYA CAKRAVARTI CANKILI RAJA (I) CEKARACACEKARAN (VII) 1519-1561

Spouse # 1: ARASI (NAME NOT KNOWN)
Paddaththukkuriya Ilavarasan (Name not known) alias Martyr (Slain in 1544)
Ilavarasan Dom Joao (Left to Goa)
Paddaththukkuriya Ilavarasan (Name not known) (Given as hostage to the Portuguese, died in Goa 1571)
Ilavarasan Periya Pillai Pandaram
Ilavarasan (Name not known)
Ilavarasan (Name not known)

Spouse # 2: KALLA IRAASAISTHIRII (NAME NOT KNOWN)
Ilavarasan Puvi Raja Pandaram

ILAVARASAN PUVI RAJA PANDARAM 1561-1565
(King Cankili Raja (I) CEKARACACEKARAN handed over the Government)


14 CINKAI ARYA CAKRAVARTI KASI NAYINAR 1565-1570
PARARACACEKARAN
(Usurper the Throne of Jaffna)

Spouse # 1: ARASI (NAME NOT KNOWN)
Ilavarasan (Name not known)
Ilavarasan (Name not known)



15 CINKAI ARYA CAKRAVARTI PERIYA PILLAI PANDARAM 1570-1582
CEKARACACEKARAN (VIII)

Spouse # 1: ARASI (NAME NOT KNOWN)
Paddaththukkuriya Ilavarasan Gago + Ilavarasi (Name not known) (d/o Puvi Raja Pandaram)
Ilavarasan Cankili (II)
Ilavarasan (Name not known) (Twin Brother of Cankili)
Ilavarasi (Name not known)
Ilavarasi (Name not known)

Ilavarasan Arasakesari Pandaram
Ilavarasan Ethirmanna Cinkam
Ilavarasan Peleleya Pandaram
Ilavarasi Dona Maria + Don Diogo
Rev. Fr. Dom Filipe
Ilavarasan Dom Francisco
Rev. Fr. Dom Bernardino
Ilavarasi Dona Ines


16 CINKAI ARYA CAKRAVARTI PUVI RAJA PANDARAM 1582-1591
PARARACACEKARAN (VII)

Spouse # 1: ARASI (NAME NOT KNOWN)
Ilavarasan (Name not known) (Slain in 1591)

Spouse # 2: ARASI (NAME NOT KNOWN)
Ilavarasan Luku Kumaran + Ilavarasi (Sister of Cankili (II))
Ilavarasan (Name not known)
Ilavarasan (Name not known)
Ilavarasan (Name not known)
Ilavarasan (Name not known)
Ilavarasi (Name not known) + Prince Kumarasingha (s/o King Senarat & Empress Dona Catharina)
Ilavarasi (Name not known) + Prince Vijayapala (s/o King Senarat & Empress Dona Catharina)
Prince (Name not known)

Ilavarasan (Name not known)
Ilavarasan (Name not known)
Ilavarasan (Name not known)
Ilavarasan (Name not known)
Ilavarasi (Name not known)
Ilavarasi (Name not known)

17 CINKAI ARYA CAKRAVARTI ETHIRMANNA CINKAM 1591-1615
PARARACACEKARAN (VIII)

Spouse # 1: ARASI DONA CLARA DA SILVA
Dona Catharina De Sa De Rebelo
Rev. Fr. Dom Constantine De Cristo

Spouse # 2: ARASI DONA ANTONIA RAPOZA
Rev. Sr. Isabel
Rev. Sr. Maria Da Visitacao

PADDILARASAN ARASAKESARI PANDARAM 1615-1616


18 CINKAI ARYA CAKRAVARTI CANKILI (II) CEKARACACEKARAN 1616-1619
(Usurper the Throne of Jaffna)



12 CINKAI ARYA CAKRAVARTI PARARACACEKARAN (VI) 1478-1519 + IRAASAISTHIRII MANGATHAMMAL
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13 CINKAI ARYA CAKRAVARTI CANKILI RAJA (I) CEKARACACEKARAN (VII) 1519-1561
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15 CINKAI ARYA CAKRAVARTI PERIYA PILLAI PANDARAM CEKARACACEKARAN (VIII) 1570-1582
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PADDATHTHUKKURIYA ILAVARASAN GAGO + ILAVARASI (NAME NOT KNOWN) (D/O PUVI RAJA PANDARAM)
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18 CINKAI ARYA CAKRAVARTI CANKILI (II) CEKARACACEKARAN 1616-1619
19 Pararasa Pandaram
20 Veera Bahu
21 Vedanayagam Mudali + Spouse (Name not known)
22 Vedanayagam Thambiah Mudali + Spouse (Name not known)
23 Thambiah Cadiravel Mudali + Ilavarasi (Name not known) Thambithurai (1st Spouse No heir) (d/o Mudaliyar Kanagaratnam Thambithurai)
23 Thambiah Cadiravel Mudali + Ilavarasi Annapoorani Nagamuttu Thambithurai (2nd Spouse) (d/o Mudaliyar Kanagaratnam Thambithurai)
24 Ilavarasan Cadiravel (Died as infant)
24 Ilavarasan Cadiravel (Died as infant)
24 Ilavarasan Cadiravel (Died as infant)
24 Ilavarasan Cadiravel (Died as infant)
24 Ilavarasan Cadiravel (Died as infant)
24 Ilavarasan Cadiravel (Died as infant)
24 Ilavarasan Cadiravel (Died as infant)
24 Ilavarasan Thambiah Cadiravel Arasaratnam + Ilavarasi Annamma Sangaralingam Caruppiah Pillai
25 Ilavarasi Maheswary Marina Antoinette Arasaratnam + Ilavarasan Thambirajah Mervin Anthony Kanagarajah
26 Ilavarasan Rajendra Sylvester Kanagarajah (Died as infant)
26 Ilavarasi Vanaja Maria Queenie Kanagarajah + Ilavarasan Suppiah Sivathasan
27 Ilavarasan Angelo Thomas Rajiendhar Sivathasan
27 Ilavarasan Anthony Gabbriel Laxman Naveen Sivathasan
27 Ilavarasan Joseph Rafaell Pravin Sivathasan
26 Ilavarasan Meryll Venatious Kanagarajah + Ilavarasi Chandramathy Kandiah
27 Ilavarasi Akhila Clementiene Kanagarajah
27 Ilavarasi Achela Meloni Kanagarajah
26 Ilavarasi Jeraldine Kanagarajah + Ilavarasan Jerome Prithiviraj Balachandran
27 Ilavarasi Maha Antoinette Jerome
26 Ilavarasan Remigius Kanagarajah + Aishwary Rajnandhini Lusijah Rajaratnam (1st Spouse)
25 Ilavarasi Yogeswary Christobal Arasaratnam + Kadiravelu
26 Ilavarasan Kadiravelu Mohanraj
25 Ilavarasi Rajeswary Miriam Therasita Arasaratnam + Anthonypillai
26 Ilavarasan Anthonypillai Gerard Joseph Pius + Ilavarasi Ratheena
27 Lavalogitha Pius
27 Keerthika Pius
26 Ilavarasan Anthonypillai Reginold Michael + Ilavarasi Indrani
27 Praveene Michael
27 Prithivi Michael
27 Moniszha Michael
26 Ilavarasan Anthonypillai Eugine Mazanold Venesious + Ilavarasi Sashi
27 Venesious Kanistan
27 Venesious Dilan
25 Ilavarasan Mahendran Yogaraj Sundaram Melvin Arasaratnam + Saratha (1st Spouse)
26 Shanthi Mahendran
26 Mahendran Suresh
26 Mahendran Rajah
26 Daughter Mahendran
25 Ilavarasan Mahendran Yogaraj Sundaram Melvin Arasaratnam + Ilavarasi Dorathy Mary Leslie Melville (2nd Spouse)
26 Ilavarasan Arasaratnam Mahendran Rabindran + Dilhani
24 Ilavarasan Thambiah Cadiravel Arasaratnam + Ilavarasi Soranam - (Kondavil) (2nd Spouse)
25 Arasaratnam Ananthan + Spouse (Name not known)
25 Ranji Arasaratnam + Spouse (Name not known)
24 Ilavarasan Thambiah Cadiravel Navaratnam Selvarajah + Ilavarasi Seetha Devi (d/o Vallipuram Chelliah)
25 Ilavarasan Capt. Suseelan Selvarajah + Jenny
25 Ilavarasan Col. Soman Selvarajah + Mahana Kaur (1 Spouse)
26 Belinda Soman
25 Ilavarasi Sara Bama Selvarajah + K.C. George
26 Mary Annta George + Jacob
26 Cerian George
26 Susan Beitha George
25 Ilavarasan Bahman Selvarajah + Ilavarasi Fera Khartini D’Santoz
26 Siva Poalee Bahman
26 Zarath’ozra Bahman
26 Sivajothi Bahman
26 Zaramethra Bahman
26 Shamera Bahman
26 Shreza Bahman
25 Ilavarasan Col. Soman Selvarajah + Ilavarasi Leena (2nd Spouse)
24 Ilavarasan Thambiah Cadiravel Nadarajah + Ilavarasi Punithavathani (d/o Dr. Saravana Balasuriya)
25 Ilavarasi Sivagnanam Sothy Nadarajah + Ponnusamy
26 Hamsatwani Ponnusamy + Sivakumar
27 Civanti Sivakumar
27 Sivakumar Ajanti
26 Mathivathani Ponnusamy + Sri Ganeshan
27 Sri Ganeshan Varun
27 Sri Ganeshan Gajanan
26 Ponnusamy Jeyanathan + Pathmalogini
27 Jeyanathan Krishigan
27 Visali Jeyanathan
26 Ponnusamy Sainanthan + Dhanalakshmi
27 Sainanthan Anojan
27 Sainanthan Krijan
24 Ilavarasan Thambiah Cadiravel Nadarajah + Ilavarasi Mathuram (2nd Spouse) (2nd d/o Dr. Saravana Balasuriya)
24 Ilavarasan Thambiah Cadiravel Thambirajah + Ilavarasi Selvaratnam
25 Ilavarasi Thavamani Devi Thambirajah + Thirunavukarasu
26 Nishanthi Thirunavukarasu
26 Thirunavukarasu Arun
25 Ilavarasan Thambirajah Jeyakumar + Ilavarasi Kamala
26 Hamsajini Jeyakumar
25 Ilavarasan Thambirajah Vijayakumar + Ilavarasi Rajeswary
25 Ilavarasi Jeevanayagi Thambirajah + Subramaniam
26 Subramaniam Sujeevan
26 Subramaniam Anujan
26 Subramaniam Kajeevan
25 Ilavarasi Selvanayagi Thambirajah + Vaikunthavasan
26 Denesa Vaikunthavasan
26 Thanisa Vaikunthavasan
25 Ilavarasi Rajanayagi Thambirajah + Rajeswaran
26 Lathika Rajeswaran
26 Dashika Rajeswaran


23 Naachchiyaar (Name not known) Thambiah + Zamindar Ramasamy Sangaralingam Caruppiah Pillai of Poompuhar, India