Qeen Elizabeth made sure this places goes under water of Bowatenna to erase any traces of Buddha born in Ceylon.
Mr. Jayaratne Pathiraarchchi has collected enough and more evidence to support this fact and British Kings and Queens wanted to bury these historical facts.
This guy Paranavithana who is by all means a Christian Priest was earmarked to falsify evidence to thay effect.
Reason.
Church of England wanted to make Ceylon there base for spread of Christianity in the Asian Subcontinent.
Indians were happy to support this stance with so many Niganta Natha Puthras in naked and conjugal bonds with opposite sex, spreading Kama Sutra in India.
2. Buddha attained Nirvana somewhere closed to Dambulla.
Dambulu Vihara is a monument to this historical fact.
3. Buddha walked length and breath of Ceylon.
a) Kaleniya to settle disputes with Yakka Tribe.
b) Mahiyanganaya to settle disputes with Naga.
c) Nagadeepa in Jaffna to settle Naga dispute
Sripada or Adam's Peak
There were no statues in early history of ours except stone pillars and stone edits.
On the last visit he was asked for a place of worship and he has placed the imprint of right foot in Sripada and the left foot on Makkama on the West coast of Ceylon. This was either destroyed by the Portuguese or most likely submerged in sea near Puttalam.
Mecca in Middle East a subsequent creation by Muslim traders to Ceylon.
Tribes
Dominating the Sive Hela or 4 regions.
1. Yaksha
They were intercine conflicts and Yakkshas dominated.
2. Naga
Naga retreated to costsl regions.
3. Dewa
Remained in the cental regions protected by forest and elephants.
4. Rakshashas
Probably lived in Kelaniya or on the central forests. There were many leaders vying for different regions of Ceylon.
RAVANA who defeated RAMA of India is one of them. Whereas, his bh brother Wibhisana was a benevolent guy. There is lot of mythology introduced by Indian writers and there true nature is not apparent.
My guess is they were an advanced civilization of forest dwelling who feared nobody and fight to death if challenged.
Some like RAVANA was more adventurist and he does not portray true the makeup of the whole entity.
Nevertheless, they ruled Ceylon in a particular prehistoric time.
Taking 30,000 years backword of Ceylon history with 4 Buddhas in Ceylon, Kakusanda, Konagama Kashshapa and Gotama this tribe cannot be drscribed as a brutal one as depicted in Indian history books.
What is evident is Indian feared them and concocted false narative since, Indiabs always opposed Buddha and his Teaching. That is why there are no Buddhists in India to this day.
Maithree Buddha is to be born in Ceylon in the future when the 5 conditions are satisfied.
1. Time
2. Place or Island
3. High caste or Sakkya (opposing violence of all and Metta is the theme.
4. Mother
5. One who has fulfilled and destined to become the Next Buddha.
Sura the good guys and ended by becoming Manu or Manussa.
Brainy guys.
Asura the bad guys who preferred to settle dispited with war.
These 4 tribes interbred.
Buddha is supposed to be Manu Tribe.
He Settled disputes with dialogue and with counter arguments against violence.
Buddha's final retreat was Anuradhapura.
He moved from Dambulla to Anuradhapura and this voyage had been the most difficult part of his life.
Probably he became sick during this voyage.
Other story is Buddha died in Dambulla and the remains were taken to Anuradhapura. I do not proscribe to that view.
Buddha's remains are buried very deep under the Ruwanweli Saya.
There supposed to be massive stone structures from Dambulla to Anuradhapura.
Malaria Epidemic pushed people away from the dry zone.
British destroyed all these structure spreading up to to Anuradhapura.
Locals did not help in construction work.
and the British brought in, Indian labour to do the destruction of massive stone structures.
The very stones fragments were used to built the road to Anuradhapura.
British plan was to plunder any archaeological artifacts left in Anuradhapura which was destroyed by Tamil and Choli invaderd from India.
Kalings Magha regime of India did enormous damage to hour historical artifacts while building Hindu Kovils.
At one time the local dialect was Tamil and how Singhala got established is a mystery to me. It may be a tone down version of Pali while grammatical syntax of Pali was substituted with simple and vocal syntax.
Finishing touches to concicted history were done by Buddhagosha and Mayanama in their BOGUS Mahavansa.
