What is relevant here is LTTE rump left in Ceylon are deliberately destroying what remains in the North.
The Muslim extremists in the East are replacing the ancient artifacts with their mosques while the current Catholic/ Christian Minister turns a blind eye to these SORDID acts.
What even the British could not achieve current Cardinal is pursuing with vengeance.
Qeen Elizabeth made sure this place 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 that effect.
Reason.
Church of England wanted to make Ceylon their base to 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" of India.
My mother wanted to go to every place of Buddhist worship in Ceylon for thousands times.
Having seen these statues in conjugal bonds in her 70s she never wanted go to India again.
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 supposed to be the last visit", Buddha was asked for a place of worship.
He had placed the imprint of right foot on Sripada and the imprint or 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 Karapitiya and Puttalam range.
Mecca in Middle East is a subsequent creation by Muslim traders in the Middle East.
Tribes
Dominating the Sive Hela or 4 regions.
1. Yaksha
There 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 brother Wibhisana was a benevolent guy.
There is lot of mythology introduced by Indian writers and the 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 the true makeup of the whole entity.
Nevertheless, they ruled Ceylon in a particular prehistoric time.
Taking 30,000 years backward of Ceylon history with 4 Buddhas in Ceylon, Kakusanda, Konagama Kashshapa and Gotama, this tribe cannot be described as a brutal, as depicted in Indian historical mythology in their books.
Factually speaking, Kalinga and Magha did destroy our historical records and planted their own version, just like the British did during their 150 years of occupation
What is evident is Indian feared them and concocted false narrative since, Indians 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 upbringing or Sakkya (opposing violence of all types.
Metta is their theme.
4. Mother
5. One who has fulfilled and destined to become the Next Buddha.
Sura the good guys ended by becoming Manu or Manussa.
Brainy guys.
Asura the bad guys who preferred to settle disputes with war ended up in other 3 types.
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 have been massive stone structures on the way from Dambulla to Anuradhapura.
Malaria Epidemic pushed people away from the dry zone.
British destroyed all these stone structures spreading up from Dambulla 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 were destroyed originally by Tamils and Cholas who came 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.
I may be WRONG here.
It may have been a tone down version of Pali while grammatical syntax of the Pali was substituted with simple and vocal syntax.
Finishing touches to the concocted history were done by Buddhagosha and Mahanama in their BOGUS Mahavansa.
