08-17-2004, 09:02 AM
Sridhar
While i google-it-out ., let me explain one theory i have , sinhalese have this lion as one of their symbols ....Mauryan empire had the same state symbol...and it was the great mauryan ashoka who was responsble for spread of Buddhism to Lanka.
But there one could argue , To whom did sungamitra and mahendra(?) preach buddhism to ? If they had preached Buddhism to tamils, we would be able to see a good percentage of buddhist tamils in Lanka.Unfortunately that is not the case.
Then we have our good old ramayana and ravana in lanka.Now does that explain that there were extensive civilisation as in the case of the mainland india during those times.... <!--emo&
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Links always talk of Aryans ... <!--emo&
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God damn max muller and his aryan theories. :f*(k
While i google-it-out ., let me explain one theory i have , sinhalese have this lion as one of their symbols ....Mauryan empire had the same state symbol...and it was the great mauryan ashoka who was responsble for spread of Buddhism to Lanka.
But there one could argue , To whom did sungamitra and mahendra(?) preach buddhism to ? If they had preached Buddhism to tamils, we would be able to see a good percentage of buddhist tamils in Lanka.Unfortunately that is not the case.
Then we have our good old ramayana and ravana in lanka.Now does that explain that there were extensive civilisation as in the case of the mainland india during those times.... <!--emo&
--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/rolleyes.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='rolleyes.gif' /><!--endemo--> Links always talk of Aryans ... <!--emo&
--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif' /><!--endemo--> .God damn max muller and his aryan theories. :f*(k