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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TommyJ" data-source="post: 25000818" data-attributes="member: 563865">According to a letter by Andre de Souza, ordered Cankili I on November 1544 the murder of his eldest son for converting to Catholicism.[1][2] The son was buried on the spot he was killed, where a chapel was built that later on served as the foundation for the construction of the present St. Mary's Cathedral at Jaffna.[3][4]Cankili I resisted all contacts with the Portuguese and even massacred 600 – 700 Parava Catholics in the island of Mannar who were brought from India to Mannar by the Portuguese to take over the lucrative pearl fisheries from the Jaffna kings. He was removed from power due to a local uprising that led his son Puviraja Pandaram take nominal power. He wielded real power behind the throne until his deathමන්නාරම සමූහ මිනී වල. මේ රට සාපේක්ෂව සාමකාමී වෙලා තියෙන්නෙ බෞද්ධයන් නිසා. නැත්තම් මේවගේ සිද්ධි තමයි. ඒ වෙනසට බෞද්ධ අබෞද්ධ කවුරුත් ගරු කරන්න ඕනෙ</blockquote>

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