{"id":56324,"date":"2016-07-06T17:35:48","date_gmt":"2016-07-07T00:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=56324"},"modified":"2016-07-06T17:35:48","modified_gmt":"2016-07-07T00:35:48","slug":"lanka-and-her-ancestry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/07\/06\/lanka-and-her-ancestry\/","title":{"rendered":"Lanka and her ancestry"},"content":{"rendered":"

Professor Nishan Wijesinha\u00a0(Professor of Paramedics & LAW; and Divinity and Holistic Science)<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

Long time ago, India consisted of many countries. Vanga was one of the countries in India at that time. The king of\u00a0Vanga\u00a0(present-day\u00a0Bengal) married a princess named Mayavati of the Kalinga country (present-day\u00a0Odisha). The couple had a daughter named Suppadevi. She was thought to be in the Hindu culture an extremely beautiful goddess. As an adult at sixteen those-days, Princess Suppadevi left Vanga to seek an independent life. She joined a caravan headed for\u00a0Magadha; but it was attacked by Sinha a beastly jungle outlaw as of Robin-hood of the Sherwood Forest. Sinha was attracted to her, and she also caressed him.<\/p>\n

All effort to find the Princess failed. Years later, the princess had twins, a son and a daughter. The son was named Sinhabahu\u201d and the daughter was named Sinhasivali\u201d.<\/p>\n

The King of Vanga announced a reward for anyone who could kill Sinha; through a general of the Vanga Kingdom. Sinhabahu killed his own father to claim the reward. By the time Sinhabahu returned to the capital, the King of Vanga had died. Sinhabhau was made the new king, but he later handed over the kingship to his mother’s new husband, the general.<\/p>\n

Sinhabhau founded a city called\u00a0Sinhapura and married his sister Sinhasivali, They had 32 sons in form of 16 pairs of twins. Vijaya was their eldest son, followed by his twin Sumitta.<\/p>\n

Vijaya was made the prince-regent by his father, but he and his band of followers became notorious for their violent deeds of looting and rape. After repeated attempts to stop Vijaya’s acts failed; the prominent citizens demanded that Vijaya be put to death. Then King Sinhabahu decided to expel Vijaya and his 700 followers from the kingdom. The men’s heads were half-shaved and they were put on a ship that was sent forth on the sea.<\/p>\n

Vijaya and followers was harbored at Thammanna coast in Lanka; and was held as prisoners in the first ever recorded banishment prison then located in Lanka; by King Maha Kalasena\u2019s most beautiful queen and general of the forces Kuweni.<\/p>\n

Thammanna kingdom is considered as the first kingdom of Lanka and the prehistory of Sri Lanka begins at this point too.<\/p>\n

Kuweni was supporsed to be beautiful and full of grace and being just sixteen; fell to the handsome looks of Vijaya.<\/p>\n

Vijaya was then able to defeat King Maha Kalasena and to get the crown and rule the country of the Theravada Sinhalese with the help of Kuweni who became the wife of Vijaya.<\/p>\n

Vijaya and Kuveni had two children, Jeewahaththa and Disala.<\/p>\n

During this time Vijaya\u2019s Ministers build cities by their names and also propagated Hinduism.<\/p>\n

Minister Anuradha built Anuradhagama which later became Anuradhapura.<\/p>\n

Ministers Uruwela, Vijitha and Upatissa built villages and named them after their names. (Upatissa Gama later became Panduwas Nuwara).<\/p>\n

Vijaya\u2019s Ministers wanted Vijaya to become a Hindu King.<\/p>\n

Vijaya’s ministers, therefore, sent emissaries with precious gifts to the city of Madhura; which is Madurai State of South India as of today, which was then ruled by a Pandu king.<\/p>\n

Madhura is identified with\u00a0current Madurai State in South India.<\/p>\n

Vijaya betrays Kuweni; and eventually kills her; and the Pandu king’s daughter becomes his queen; as Vijaya gets coroneted as a Hindu King; and reigns for 38 years.<\/p>\n

[With this coronation, Eastern and the Northern Maritime Provinces of Sri Lanka becomes one Hindu Dominion.]<\/p>\n

In the Meantime, on advice of Kuweni\u2019s maternal uncle, the two children are secretly sent to Malaya Rata; which is later identified as the Kandyan Kingdom; where the two marries each other and brings the birth of a puritan Sinhala Race through their offspring, and followers.<\/p>\n

Meanwile Vijaya had no other children after Kuveni’s death.<\/p>\n

And when he grew old, he became concerned that he would die heirless. So, he decided to bring his twin brother Sumitta from India, to govern his kingdom. He sent a letter to Sumitta.<\/p>\n

But by the time he could get a reply, he died. His ministers from\u00a0Upatissagama\u00a0then governed the kingdom for a year, while awaiting a reply.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, in Sinhapura, Sumitta had become the king, and had three sons. His queen was a daughter of the king of Madda that is of Madra. So, he requested one of his sons to depart for Lanka.<\/p>\n

His youngest son, Panduvasdeva, volunteered to go.<\/p>\n

Panduvasdeva and 32 sons of Sumitta’s Ministers reached Lanka, where Panduvasdeva became the new ruler.<\/p>\n

King Panduwasdeva ruled the country keeping Upathissagama as the capital. He also needed an Indian high cast princess for his coronation. The princess “Badrakachchana” who came as his wife was a close relative of Gautama\u00a0Buddha, as her grandfather was King Suddhodana (father of Gautama\u00a0Buddha).<\/p>\n

From henceforth was the merger back with the Theravada Sinhalese.<\/p>\n

At the same time, Chauvinist Sinhalese authors even of the Mahavamsa have used the mythology to oppose\u00a0Tamil secessionism; to safeguard patriotism; which has eventually diluted the historical truth; of Lanka and her ancestry.<\/p>\n

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Professor Nishan Wijesinha\u00a0(Professor of Paramedics & LAW; and Divinity and Holistic Science) Long time ago, India consisted of many countries. Vanga was one of the countries in India at that time. The king of\u00a0Vanga\u00a0(present-day\u00a0Bengal) married a princess named Mayavati of the Kalinga country (present-day\u00a0Odisha). The couple had a daughter named Suppadevi. She was thought to […]<\/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-56324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56324","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=56324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}