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Sinhale Jayawe!

There is no mention of the word SINHALA in Mahavamsa but it refers so many times about the Tamils and Tamil rulers. :)))LOL

When those who were commanded by Vijaya landed from thier ship, they sat down wearied, resting their hands upon the ground - and since their hands were reddened by touching the dust of the red earth that region and also the island were (named) Tambapanni. But the king Sinhabahu, since he had slain the lion (was called) Sihala and, by reason of the ties between him and them, all those (followers of Vijaya) were also (called) Sihala.

There is no mention of the word SINHALA in Mahavamsa but it refers so many times about the Tamils and Tamil rulers.

Vijayas father Sihabahu was called sihala because he killed a lion but his children or his descendents in India were not known as Sihala. Even Vijaya's twin brother Sumitta was not known or did not consider himself or his followers as Sihala. We do not know to what tribe these people including his son Panduvasudeva belonged to in India, but he did not belong the category known as *followers of VIJAYA*. As Vijay said, after his death, the Sihala Kingdom what he formed died with him (became zero).

Prince Panduvasudeva who took over after a year never called himself a Sihala and therefore, the Mahavamsa stopped talking about Sihala. None of the Kings of Sri Lanka after Panduvasudeva claimed that they were Sihala or their Kingdom was Sihala.

The Grand Grand son of King Panduvasudewa had friends and visitors from outside Sri Lanka but none of them had mentioned anywhere that he was a Sihala or his kingdom was Sihala or he spoke Sihala.

His Grand Grand Grand son King Gemunu of Rohana became so famous for winning the war against Elara, Mahavamsa has 11 full chapters to praise him but unfortunately not a single word to call him a Sihala king. Ven. Mahanama could have said, our great Sihala hero Gemunu defeated that Tamil invader from Chola???

Unfortunately King Gemunu was not a Sihala. HE WAS A NAGA PRINCE. :)))

The Mahavamsa also calls the Pandyans of Madurai (South India) as Pandu. It also says king Vijay and his men took wives from the Pandu kingdom of Madurai. Todays historians such as Dr. Leslee Gunawardena believes that Pandu Vasudeva who arrived an year after Vijayas death can also be a Pandu(TAMIL) from Madurai.

It is difficult for Fidiots like you to grasp all these.

There is no mention of the word SINHALA in Mahavamsa but it refers so many times about the Tamils and Tamil rulers. :)))LOL

My poor terrorist, Mahavamsa doesn't say anything about Tamils. It does talk a lot about how we thrashed the Demalas.

In an interesting article written by Mr. Wimaladharma to the RAS Journal 2000 he mentions the fountain areas from which the concubines were drawn. They are as follows:

RAMBUKWELLA and Alutgama families in Udu Dumbara.

Amunugama and Halyale families in Patha Dumbara.

Aludeniya, Mampitiya and Dunuvila families.

Harispattuwa Moonerawila family in Matale.

Unamboowa family from Udapalatha.

Thivya
Who did the pimping to bring Tamil women from India for Sinhala Kings?

Our rulers beginning from the first king imported queens from South India. The most vicious case of female discrimination was staged during the first king Vijaya's time when he banished a woman of an indigenous tribe who helped him to conquer the island, just to make way for a princess of royal lineage imported from the sub-continent.

Though this wife-import was continued by later kings too. Eventually the practice ceased with the springing of royal houses here to provide consorts for kings.

According to the Chulavamsa RajasingheII imported a princess from Madurai in South India and the practice continued eventually even lead in to the extinction of the Sinhala royal line when a strange inheritance law of South India was dug up for the Malabar brother-in-law to take over the legacy.

A stranger practice continued when into the third category of wives was packed the Sinhala wives who were more or less kept in their own villages as concubines. The first category, The Randolis and the second category, lived in Meda and Palle Vehala.

That the Yakadadolis, the third category of concubines did not live with the king is amply testified by the fact that when the last king was captured only the Tamil speaking queens were with him. The Sinhala queens or more correctly concubines were safely in their own homes. It was the South Indian wives who hung around the neck of V. Dias, the ancestor of the Bandranaike family crying and shouting 'Andavane' in distress (according to his diary).

Mr. Kapila Vimaladharma in his recent book, 'Women in the Kandyan Kingdom' says that probably the Randolis were called so since they rode in gold-gilt palanquins and the Yakada - dolis were called so since they rode in iron - wrought palanquins. The Yakadadolis languished in their own villages awaiting a rare charika (tour) by the king. Yet they seem to have been well treated. Extensive land grants had been made to them and males in the families raised to Bandara status.

The worst discrimination the concubines suffered from was that their offspring's by the king were not recognized as heirs to the throne. Thus when the last Sinhala king's South Indian wives failed to produce a son a move was afoot to crown the son of Unamboowa Kumarihamy by the king but it was not successful due to the above factor plus the jealousy of other chieftains.