ABSTRACT
Saviours IN many countries, especially in Africa, there is a rule that only the sons born to a king after his consecration are allowed to succeed. More commonly, sons born before the consecration are allowed to succeed, but even then a special sanctity or prestige attaches to sons born after the coronation; hence such titles as the Byzantine Porphyrogenitus, " Born-in-Purple ". If a Sinhalese king was born from the womb of an anointed queen, the inscriptions are careful to lay stress on the fact.
