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වෙඩික්කිනාරිමලේ බෞද්ධ පුදබිම ශිව කෝවිලක් හැටියට දැන් සාකච්ඡාවට භාජනය වී තිබේ. එහෙත් එතන ක්‍රි.පූර්ව තෙවැනි සියවසේ ආරම්භ වූ බෞද්ධ පූජනීය භූමියක් බව එහි නටබුන්...

A growing population of Tamil soldiers in the Anuradhapura Kingdom In our previous episode, we explained how, by this time, it had become a practice...

පර්වතය මුදුනේ සෑයවල් දෙකක පාදම් කොටස් කටාරම් කෙටූ ලෙන් අටක් ශිලා ලිපි වඩ්ඩමාන පුරාවිද්‍යා භූමිය බෞද්ධ පුදබිමක් බව ඔප්පු කරන්න හොඳම සාක්‍ෂි… වඩ්ඩමාන පර්වතයේ එල්.ටී.ටී.ඊ...

Buddhaghosha Thera; a Dravidian origin? During the time of King Mahanama (410 – 432 CE) the well-known Pali commentator, the Theravada Buddhist monk Ven. Buddhaghosha...

Explaining further the situation of Buddhism in South India, Former Joint Director General of the Department of Archaeology, Government of India, T.N. Ramachandran writes...

While we examine the political allies and animosities between the Sinhala kingdom and the South Indian kingdoms we must also study the situation of...

According to A Concise History of Ceylon by Prof. Senerath Paranavitana and C.W. Nicholas, based on archaeological and literary evidence, the creators of a...

Damedas or Damelas in local chronicles The first Damilas to be mentioned in local chronicles are sailors who were engaged in Horse trading. These traders...

In ancient Sri Lanka, according to inscriptions and chronicles, there had been an ancient ethnicity known as Dameda or Damela, who were merchants, sailors,...

Continuing from where we stopped at last week, let’s take a detailed look at the Tamil Householder’s Terrace Inscription. Inscription of a Tamil householder and...