Palaka I of the Ganga Dynasty (The Ashes of Rome Map Game)

Palaka was Raja of the Ganga Dynasty from 679 to his death. He suceeded to his father, the famous Khanchana I, in the middle of the First Great War of India.

Biography

 * Palaka is the second son of Khanchana I, born in 653 from his second marriage. Being the oldest son alive at his birth, he became the Yuvraj (heir) to the throne.
 * Around 660, Sri Lanka came under the control of the Ganga Dynasty. His father turned it into the personnal domain of the Yuvraj, Palaka becoming the first Yuvraj to rule over Sri Lanka.
 * He had his first child in 670 (a son named Khadaga in honor of his grandfather Khadaga I), shortly before he joined the front as a general of his father during the First Great War of India.
 * In 675, his father returned to the capital because of illness, leaving Palaka to lead the Ganga forces in the war.
 * In 680, he recievec new of the death of his father, who died in 679, meaning he had became the new Raja. Because of the war, he woudl however have to wait in order to be crown.

Descendance

 * Yuvraj Khadaga (M), his heir: 670-