sentences:  The king then adopted the son of his daughter as his own son who was titled .During Sri Vikrama Rajasinha's time as a royal prisoner in Vellore Fort the erstwhile king received a privy purse, which his descendants continued to receive from the Government of Ceylon until it was abolished in 1965.Sri Wikrama Rajasinha died of dropsy on 30 January 1832 aged 52 years.