Sri Raja Sinha

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Sri Raja Sinha was a royal title borne by rulers of the Nayakkar dynasty in South India and Sri Lanka.

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Label Occurrences
Sri Raja Sinha canonical 1
Sri Sri Sri Raja Sinha 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf honorific title
royal title
associatedWith monarchy
culturalContext Dravidian royal culture
Sri Lankan royal culture
denotesStatus royal dignity
sovereign ruler
hasComponent Raja
Sinha
Sri
hasMeaning lion king
languageOfOrigin Sinhala
Tamil
relatedDynasty Madurai Nayak dynasty
surface form: Nayaka dynasty of Madurai

Madurai Nayak dynasty
surface form: Nayaka dynasty of Thanjavur

Kandyan kings
surface form: Nayaka rulers of Kandy
relatedTitle Rajasinha
usedAs regnal title
usedBy Nayakkar dynasty
usedByEthnicGroup Sinhalese rulers
Tamil rulers
usedInHistoricalContext South Asian royal titulature
usedInHistoricalPeriod early modern period
usedInRegion South India
Sri Lanka

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Nayakkar dynasty titleOfRulers Sri Raja Sinha
Kandyan kings title Sri Raja Sinha
this entity surface form: Sri Sri Sri Raja Sinha