Kusumsana Devi .d , also known as Dona Catherina of Kandy, was ruling Queen of Kandy in . She was deposed, but queen consort of Kandy by marriage to Vimaladharm.riya I of Kandy from ..She became an orphan at a very early age of her childhood and was brought up in a Catholic orphanage in Mannar after being baptizd as Dona Catherina. How did she go to the distant place Mannar having been born in the salubrious Kandyan hills.. Dona Catherina was a child survivor of allpox epidemic which effectively wiped out her entire family, the royal family of king Karaliyadde Bandara. As an orphan she was brought up by the nuns of the convent in Mannar.. Just fifty years later, in Sri Lanka, there appeared Dona Catherina, a real princess, whose life was crucial in Lankan history but who has been largely ignored in our main historical do.entations and unlike Padmavathi, failed to inspire poets..
