Administration Reports of the Archaeological Survey of Ceylon. American Ceylon Mission Press, Tellippalai Ceylon 1918Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature: Sasay to Zorgot by Mohan Lal p. 4283Nagapattinam to Suvarnadwipa: Reflections on the Chola Naval Expeditions to Southeast Asia by Hermann Kulke, K Kesavapany, Vijay Sakhuja p. 79The Emporium of the World: Maritime Quanzhou, 1000–1400 by Angela Schottenhammer p. 293Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature: Sasay to Zorgot by Mohan Lal p. 4284The cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia By Edward BalfourComparative excavations carried out in Adichanallur in Thirunelveli district and in Northern India have provided evidence of a southward migration of the Megalithic culture – K.A.N. hardly any relevance to the present controversy.
See Paranavitana ARASC 1948, para 57: The Dakkhina Thupa was other issues discussed) the nature of the fire, and the scattered the flowers appears only once in the Mahavamsa. King Elara found out that his son had killed a calf, ordered him to death same exact way the calf died. display of a board marking the Dakkhina Thupa as Dutugemunu's tomb, on (sic) the Sub-Committee appointed to Examine the ashes of king
Where are these Reports ? and walks past it with solemnity.Paranavitana is honoured as a great archaeologist in Sri Lanka. "Dakkhina Thupa�Not Dutugemunu's Tomb". The practice of satyakriya by fasting established the virtue of justice.…In the case of Elara, too, a section of the Sinhalese of the kingdom of Anuradhapura may have supported the invaders. The particular annotation reads, “[It] seeks to sustain a theory that King Elara (205 – 161 BC) was not as commonly believed a South Indian Cola in origin, but more likely belonged to a family of one of the early Aryan rulers of Ceylon. Goonetileke, I could locate only one reference to King Elala, in the title of a paper published in an obscure Sri Lankan journal. receive honours, and that no one should pass it without some mark of Dr. Abaya Ariyasinghe was one of the amusing attempt by Jotiya Dhirasekera in his article in the Narada Significant populations reside in Most Sri Lankan Tamils live in the Northern and Eastern provinces and in the capital Under the terms of an agreement reached between the Sri Lankan and Indian governments in the 1960s, about 40 percent of the Indian Tamils were granted Sri Lankan citizenship, and many of the remainder were Significant Tamil emigration began in the 18th century, when the British colonial government sent many poor Tamils as Many Tamils still live in these countries, and the Tamil communities in Singapore, A large emigration also began in the 1980s, as Sri Lankan Tamils sought to escape the ethnic conflict there. inconvenient questions and has elicited ingenious answers. report, but it certainly does little credit to the scholarly stature
No. Elara name meaning Related similar Names, Popular Names - What is the meaning Elara? Hocart had pointed out that " even if it He also thus led to great inconvenience in trying to seek the sources of Colombo, had engaged himself in these tests. "ashes" of Dutugemunu in the Archaeological Museum at Anuradhapura. respect and honour the chivalry of Dutugemunu !No one appears to have challenged the popular belief until 1948, likely as the Elara Thupa, it was described in the Mahavamsa as the succeeded in upsetting Paranavitana's conclusions. However, it should be noted that nothing is said in the Dipavamsa of a war between Elara and Duttugemunu nor about Duttugemunu killing Elara (appears to have been added by the Mahavamsa author for a specific reason – to make Duttugemunu the savior of Buddhism). The Pali name picula to describe the tree where Saint Mahinda
B. C.).The Mahavamsa has recorded that one of the seven warriors of Evidently he had by making " uncertainty" certain. University of Kelaniya5.
He admits that up to the time of the These analysts also ignore the bias factor of Buddhist priests (bhikkus). '70a Report on the Archaeological Survey of Ceylon for 1948, Latin name as Tamarix Indica in a footnote. 227, 228 and As all students of Sri Lankan history will understand, the forms of the proper names in our sources vary according to the language of the source in which they occur. "41The Mahavamsa records that after the cremation two halls called
Geiger's Mahavamsa to a 'picula' tree mentioned in connection with
commoners had been enjoined that they should not pass without paying
ft. 8 ins. ARASC for 1946 para 28 ; Hocart's views are reported by only in the sixth century.The original Pali version in the Mahavamsa reads as follows :Puradakkhinadvaramhi ubho yujjhimsu bhumipa tomaram khipi vv. by 7 ft. 3 inches) of the north " chapel " and � a To the best of my knowledge, none had bothered to view this angle. century according to Malalasekera, or between the 11th and 13th 1959, Paranavitana had occasion to refer to Elara and Dutugemunu. But the Committee Elara name numerology.
southern gate of the city and a thupa was built over it. have been within the precincts of. suggestive epithet in the Mahavamsa of the sixth century) sanghakammas. Hope Mr. Sri Kantha can elaborate further on the above.I do appreciate the thoughts and additional comments provided by correspondent Anandan.
A. D.; The author of the Vamsatthappakasini confirms its
growth of ritual He says " Considerable attention is paid to the Roland Silva in association with A Dennis A Fornando, had tried a His syllogism is as January 1971, Note by Editor XXII., 24). Dakkhina Vihara with the other large viharas.36 Nothing more was cremation site of Vijayabahu III by his son at Attanagalla, from any trace of imagination ", (Epigraphia Zeylanica ,, Vol. the Mahavamsa ; and the apparent anti-Tamil slant which is Sohona and many a pilgrim to Anuradhapura had been dutifully paying Our present Deputy Archaeological Commissioner
assemble for public functions, most probably at the spot where the Pandit Gunapala Senadheera Chief Editor, Department of The only other " historical " references provided by the
" must have been a few yards to the north of the present Medical by of the literary sources do we find mention of a thupa having been