Muthu Mandapam, Vellore Muthu Mandapam is a memorial situated on the banks of the Palar river in Vellore, India. It has been built by the Tamil Nadu Government to honour King Sri Vikrama Rajasinha (1798-1815 A.D.), the last ruler of Sri Lanka (Rajalakshmi & Yoganandham, 2020). The tomb of Rajasinha along with the tombs of seven of his family members stands inside this pearl-shaped memorial house erected in 1990. History Sri Vikrama Rajasingha was the last of the four kings of the Nayak dynasty (Telugu origin) of the Kandyan Kingdom . He succeeded his uncle King Sri Rajadhi Rajasinha (1781-1798 A.D.) in 1798 at the age of eighteen. He ruled Kandy until he was deposed by the British government under the terms of the Kandyan Convention signed on 2 March 1815 between the British Governor of Ceylon Sir Robert Brownrigg (1812-1820 A.D.) and the chiefs of the Kandyan Kingdom. Rajasinha surrendered to Brownrigg at Bomure on 18 February 1815 while he was hiding in a house at Udapitivala in Kandy (Abeyawardana, 2004).…