Iron Age in Sri Lanka / සිරි ලක යකඩ යුගය

A large settlement appears to have been founded before 900 BC at the site of Anuradhapura where signs of an Iron Age culture have been found. The size of the settlement was about 15 hectares at that date.A similar site has been discovered at Aligala in Sigiriya. The earliest chronicles the Dipavamsa and Mahavamsa say that the island was inhabited by tribes of Yakkhas (demons), Nagas (cobras) and devas (gods). Pottery dating back to 600 BC has been found at Anuradhapura, bearing Brahmi Script  and non-Brahmi writing.
Image result for man in iron age


යකඩ යුගයට අයත් සලකුනු ලෙස බොහෝ විශාල ජනාවාස අනුරාධපුර ප්‍රදේශයෙන් හමු වී ඇත. එම ජනාවාස හෙක්ටයාර් 15 ක් පමණ වන තරමට විහිදී තිබූ බවට සාක්ශි හමු වී ඇත. සීගිරිය ප්‍රදේශයේ ඇලිගල නම් ස්ථානයේ ද එවැනිම ජනාවාසයක් හමු වී ඇත. ඉතිහාස ලේඛනයන් වන දීප වන්ශය හා මහා වන්ශය පෙන්වා දෙන අන්දමට එකල මිනිසුන් යක්ශ, නාග හා දේව ලෙසට ගෝත්‍ර වශයෙන් බෙදී සිට ඇත. අනුරාධපුරයේ කැනීම් වලින් බ්‍රාහ්මීය අක්ෂර හා බ්‍රාහ්මීය නොවන අක්ෂර සොයාගෙන ඇත. 

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Kuveni or Kuvanna - කුවේණිය හෙවත් කුවණ්ණා

Kuveni also known as Sesapathi or Kuvanna, was a Yakshini queen in Sri Lanka mentioned in the ancient Pali chronicles Mahavamsa She is venerated as Maha Loku Kiriammaleththo by the Veddas. Other names for her varying with Veddas habitats are Indigolle Kiriamma, Unapane Kiriamma, Kande Kiriamma, Divas Kiriamma, Wellasse Kiriamma, Kukulapola Kiriamma and Bili Kiriamma.Kuveni was a wife of Sri Lanka's first recorded king Vijaya and she had two children, a son named Jeevahatta and the daughter as Disala . According to the genesis myth of the Sinhala people, recorded in the Mahavansa, the Veddas - Sri Lanka aboriginal population are descended from Kuveni's children.And alternative tale is that Kuveni flung herself from Yakdessa Gala, imploring the Gods to curse Vijaya for his cruelty - which they do by preventing any of Vijaya's children from ever sitting on the throne of Rajarata.One legend says that she had three breasts. The soothsayers had said that the moment...
Read more

Early Kingdoms / රාජධානියට පෙර

Image
According to the  Mahavamsa , the original inhabitants of Sri Lanka are the  Yakshas  and northern  Naga  tribes.  According to  folklore , the  Naga  people were one of the groups of original inhabitants of Lanka. They were said to have ruled  Nagadeepa , or  Jaffna Peninsula  and  Kelaniya . Naga people were snake-worshipers, and may have been a race of the Dravidians.   Sinhalese  history traditionally starts in 543 BC at the arrival of  Prince Vijaya , a semi-legendary king who was banished from the Indian subcontinent with his 700 followers, and is recorded in the  Mahavamsa  chronicle. මහා වන්ශයට අනුව සිරි ලක මුල්ම ප්‍රධාන වැසියන් වූයේ යක්ශ ගෝත්‍රිකයන් හා උතුරු ප්‍රදේශයේ ජීවත් වූ නාග ගෝත්‍රිකයන් ය. නාග ගෝත්‍රිකයන් නාගදීපයත් කැලණියත් රජ්‍යය කොට ගෙන විසූ අතර ඔවුන් නාගයින්ට වැඳුම් ඉදුම් කරමින් විසූ ද්‍රවිඩයින් බවට සැලකිය හැක. නමුත් සින්හල ඉතිහාස කතාව ආරම්භ වන්නේ ඉන්දියාවෙන් පිටුවහල් කරන ල...
Read more

Birth of prince Vijaya / විජය කුමරුගේ උත්පත්තිය

The king of  Vanga  (present-day  Bengal ) married a princess (named Mayavati in some  versions) of the neighbouring  Kalinga  (present-day  Odisha ). The couple had a daughter named Suppadevi, who was prophesied to copulate with the king of beasts. As an adult, Princess Suppadevi left Vanga to seek an independent life. She joined a caravan headed for  Magadha , but it was attacked by Sinha ("lion") in a forest of the Lala (or Lada) region. The  Mahavamsa  mentions the "Sinha" as an animal, but some modern interpreters state that Sinha was the name of a beastly outlaw man living in the jungle. Sinha kept Suppadevi locked in a cave, and had two children with her: a son named  Sinhabahu  (or Sihabahu; "lion-armed") and a daughter named Sinhasivali (or Sihasivali). When the children grew up, Sinhabahu asked his mother why she and Sinha looked so different. After his mother told him about her royal ancestry, he decided to ...
Read more