Welcome Message

Greetings to the People of Sri Lanka and to all people around the world. It gives me great pleasure to invite you to visit my website which elaborates on various aspects of “Jaffna, its Kingdom and my family”.

In earlier times Jaffna was known as “Yaalpaanam”. Geographically, the peninsula of Jaffna together with its seven little islands, crowns the island of Sri Lanka. Tamils originated mainly from different parts of southern India. In ancient times, the entire island (Ilankai or Lanka) certainly was dominated by the principal Dravidian dynasties, known as Chera, Chola, Pandya and Pallava and later by Vijayanagara. All these Kingdoms had at their prevailing times, collectively spanned and dominated the entire South Indian region.

Cevvirukkai Nadu was the ancestral home of the Arya Chakravarti, Kings of Jaffna. Cevvirukkai Nadu is the name of a place in Rameswaram, the southernmost Indian city which in the old days belonged to the Ganga Dynasty or Ganga Vamsa. The Arya Chakravarti, Kings of Jaffna, belonged to the Ganga Dynasty. They then entered into matrimonial alliances with Brahmins and assumed the title “Arya” as a distinctive honorific.

My ancestors began to rule the Kingdom of Jaffna from the twelfth century right down to the early seventeenth century. Singai Arya Chakravarti Vijaya Kulankai was the founder of the Royal Line of the Arya Chakravarti Dynasty. He resided at Nallur, built a Palace there besides a temple to the God Kailasa Nathar who he worshipped. He also built the Kandaswamy Temple and several others during his reign.

Singai Arya Chakravarti Vijaya Kulankai Segarajasekaran (I) was the first King to assume the title of Chakravarti (Emperor). They were also known by the throne names of Segarajasekaran and Pararajasekaran, titles which kept alternating during the reign of the Arya Chakravartis.

The Kingdom of Jaffna under Arya Chakravarti remained an independent monarchy with its capital in Nallur, Jaffna. Where the fourteenth century built Royal Temple still stands.

Although the Kingdom of Jaffna was destroyed by the Portuguese by 1621, it still exists through me, my family and other existing descendants of the Royal Family of Jaffna. The reason I am coming forward now to claim this succession is grounded in the need to prove to the younger generation and the world that there was once a strong Kingdom in Jaffna. My only wish now is to bring peace to the dispersed Tamil people of Sri Lanka and to unite them as one nation. I hope and pray that peace may prevail over the people of Sri Lanka.