Sankili Segarajasekaran

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Sankili Segarajasekaran is the most remembered Jaffna kingdom king in the Sri Lankan Tamil history.

According Yalpana Vaipava malai, Pararajasekeran VI had two principal wives and a number of concubines. His first wife, Rajalaksmi, was a Chola princess. The Cholas had, by this time, lost control of their kingdom in Tamil Nadu, with Rajendra Chola III being king in the Tanjore area around 1279. There are no records of subsequent Chola kings exerting power beyond this date, so Rajalaksmi was either a descendant of the surviving titular head of the Cholas or the daughter of a descendant based in Lanka. Rajalaksmi had two sons, Singhabahu and Pandaram. Pararajasekeran VI's second wife Valliammal was a Pandyan princess. She bore Pararajasekeran VI a son named Paranirupasingham.

One of Pararajasekeran VI's concubines, named Mangala, also bore him two children, a boy named Sangili and a girl named Paravai. The Yalpana Vaipava Malai a book written during the Dutch colonial period about the kingdom, is most probably incorrect in its account of this time. What is more likely, though not confirmed, is that Sangili intrigued with the Portuguese and eliminated his half-brothers Singhabahu and Pandaram, allegedly killing one by poison and one by the sword.

Yalpana Vaipava Malai is silent as to why Sangili did not feel the need to kill his other half-brother Paranirupasingham. A clue can be found in the Catholic Church's records of the time, as recounted in the Vinea Taprobana. It is possible that Portuguese missionary activity had become so successful that it reached the Royal household. If Paranirupasingham had become a convert, then he would have been disqualified from the throne because of his lack of popular support.

His rule is also remembered for its brutal massacre of 600 Paravar converts to Catholicism in the Mannar Island and expelling of all Buddhists from the Jaffna Peninsula who had rebelled against him under the tutelage of one Bandara.