{"id":46785,"date":"2015-08-11T12:18:29","date_gmt":"2015-08-11T18:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=46785"},"modified":"2015-08-11T04:29:04","modified_gmt":"2015-08-11T11:29:04","slug":"sinhala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/08\/11\/sinhala\/","title":{"rendered":"SINHALA"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>by\u00a0Dr.Sripali Vaiamon<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><strong>History has been taken out from our school curriculum in 1972. So you can\u2019t blame Justice Minister who is a young man uttering that Sri Lanka is not a Sinhala country. Let him learn. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Now\u00a0 Let us go deep into the pre-history for the sake of those who are ignorant of the true history of our\u00a0 Sinhala country. The term SINHALA exists from about 1200 B.C. Historical wise I first came across it in the second book of MAHABARATHA.(translated by Van Beutenen) where there was a poem which depicts a SINHALA deputation gone from our country to participate in the Royal Consecration,(Rajassuya) of the king\u00a0 Udisthra carrying a load of\u00a0 gifts\u00a0 such as pearls, conches sea beryls,,elephant husks etc.and further elaborated what the Sinhala Chieftain of the deputation had dressed for the occasion.(2-27-48)-subsequently Mr.K.M.Ganguly who translated all the 18 books, revealed the term Sinhala appeared in Book 1,Ch 177 and Bk 2 Ch 33\u00a0 and Ch 51. Besides these it is given in several ancient Sanskrit books viz Markandya Purana, Bhagawatha and Brahath sanhitha..Dr.B.J.Perera contributed an article to the Ceylon Historical Journal Vol.2. where he says Sinhala is given in the\u00a0 Jaina Canonical works which was compiled before the dawn of Buddhism. According to Dr.Senarath Paranavithana, the term Sinhala is Sanskrit. In Pali it is Seehala and Sainhala in Prakrit..Internet depicts Mahabharatha commences its compilation in 900 B.C.But Monier Monier Williams who compiled the first English Sanskrit Dictionary says it was 1200 B C .That shows it is\u00a0 much before the advent of Vijaya from Gujarath as elaborated in the chronicle Mahavansa.Vijaya is not the progenitor of Sinhala race as described in Mahavansa.. .400 years prior to the advent of Vijaya there had been a civilization at Anuradhapura according to extensive research conducted by veteran archeologist Siran Deraniyagala.The Sinhala Litarati late Mr. Arisen Ahubudu says four major tribes in the ancient island were Deva,Naga,Yakka and Raksa.Prof.J.B.Dissanayaka is agreeable with this. They were speaking\u00a0 a dialect Illu.Helu or HELA.The combination of the four tribes\u00a0 Siv + Hela= It became SIHALA the equivalent for the Sanskrit, SINHALA. Scholar Mr.Cumaranatunga contributing an article to\u00a0 Prabhashodaya in 1935 depicts Sinhala is the term used by ancient time for the country as well as\u00a0 the language. For both.<\/p>\n<p>According to archeological revelations in the country the first human bone has been discovered in\u00a0 123,000 years ago at Pathirajawela down South, Subsequent excavation at 80,000 have discovered not only a human bone but fossils of LIONS, rhinoceros\u00a0 and Hippopotamus. Subsequently more fossils of lions have been discovered from Ratnapura and Sabagamuva province. I hypothesize it is quite possible to have some connection to lion the term Sinhala from ancient time..Our Historians and archeologists must make an attempt to trace this from very old Sanskrit\u00a0 books of ola leaves\u00a0 in the Sanskrit\u00a0 University at Thripunna thurai and several other places in India.We may not have anything for this purpose in our country.<\/p>\n<p>Even in the recent history Jaffna was occupied by Sinhalese. It confirms by Mudliyar Rasanayagam in his book \u2018Ancient Jaffna\u2019\u00a0 page 384 ,if I Quote,-Jaffna was occupied by the Sinhalese earlier than by the Tamils is seem not only in the places names of Jaffna but also in some\u00a0 of the habits and customs of the people. The system of branding cattle by which not only the caste but also the position and the family of the owner could be traced was peculiarly Sinhalese. That shows from ancient times entire country,North,East,South and West was a Sinhala country.<\/p>\n<p>Isn\u2019t it quite evident that our country is Sinhala\u00a0 from more than 1000 BC.How could it has any claim to any other community who stepped in just in yesterday!<\/p>\n<p>Chief Minister of Tamilnadu. Who is governing a vast area of India. Why does she wants to grab Kacthchative from Sri Lanka?.It was outhourticaly given over to Sri Lanka after several discussion by two great leaders in the world,Mrs.Srimao Bandaranaiake and Mrs Indira Gandi.Why on earth she who living in a vast area of India wants to grab Kachchative belongs to this small island.Why she wants to send her fishermen with massive boats to grab the ocean floor of the Sri Lanka waters not only to catch fish but to ruin the ocean floor.We had a minister in charge of the area but I do not know whether he uttered a word. Perhaps during that time Chief Minister was in the Jail. Prime minister Modi has no right to falk his fingers into this when he has million of problems.Two hundred and fifty million Dalit people are suffering miserably.Why can\u2019t he look into his problems? What a world!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by\u00a0Dr.Sripali Vaiamon History has been taken out from our school curriculum in 1972. So you can\u2019t blame Justice Minister who is a young man uttering that Sri Lanka is not a Sinhala country. Let him learn. Now\u00a0 Let us go deep into the pre-history for the sake of those who are ignorant of the true [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}