Hence there were no Sinhalese when the Demala Baudahayo existed. That was a time when the Sinhalese language had not come into existence. He accepts that Tamils at a stage in our history were Buddhists. Professor Sunil Ariaratne has written a Book in Sinhalese a few years ago by the name of Demala Baudhayo (Tamil Buddhists). How they resorted to such deception, was, by connecting Buddhism to the Sinhalese and say wherever Buddhist remains exist those were originally occupied by Sinhalese. There is no evidence of any of those Sinhala names existing in the North and East prior to the translations of recent times. If the Sinhala language came into being in the 5th or 6th Century AD how could there have been Sinhala names of Tamil places 2000 years ago?
After sometime, since the translations were done, Buddhist priests and others have started referring to the Tamil areas and the Tamil place names in the North and East by the Sinhala translated names saying that the Original names of those places in the North East were in the Sinhala Language and that those Sinhala names were translated into Tamil after the Chola Conquest in the 10th Century AD. For example Manal Aru which was for Centuries referred to as Manal Aru (in Tamil) was translated to Weli Oya (Manal-Weli-Sand / Aru- Oya-River), post Independence. Officially the Tamil names of places in the North and East of the Island were translated into Sinhala language during the second half of last Century only. Mahawansa was written for the glorification of Buddhism as the Author Mahanama himself says at the end of every stanza.ĭuring the past 73 years the Sinhala Politicians and the Sinhalese intelligentsia have resorted to the gimmick of giving a distorted picture of Sinhalese Language and Sinhala History. There are no evidence of any Sinhala inscriptions before 5th Century AD. When Mahawansa was written there was no Sinhala Language born then. The Sinhala people have been fed with wrong history based on Mahawansa. If the Sinhala language had come into being 3000 years ago why did it take 1700 years for its grammar to be born? The first grammar of the Sinhalese the “Sidath Sangaraya” was written in the 13th Century AD just eight centuries ago.
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