The British , Pilimatalawwe, Ehelepola Vickrama Rajasinha OR ?

Hunter wrote:They promised to bring him a better princess from India.
Apparently they get hold of a 'sexy' prostitute in India and made the king believe that she indeed a princess.

Hunter wrote:* (Gossip) Ehelepola kumari hami was said to be very beautiful (සිරා කෑල්ලක්). Sri vickrama wanted to scr.....

*   Once Sri Vickrama assigned both of them as rulers for the same area it seems to make things worse.......

* (Gossip) Pillimathalawe is said to be the father of Kannasamy (Sri Vickram).  .....

කිත්සිරි ද සිල්වා wrote:History and religion should be taken out from school curriculum is my opinion.

slstock wrote:Why?

කිත්සිරි ද සිල්වා wrote:History and religion should be taken out from school curriculum is my opinion.

කිත්සිරි ද සිල්වා wrote:The competitiveness is blunted by both.
History gives people to wallow in the past glory than do what is needed to be done today, so they will have a better future tomorrow.
Religion gives people hope of a better future tomorrow, thus making them less inclining to do something today to make tomorrow a better one.

slstock wrote:Why?

කිත්සිරි ද සිල්වා wrote:History and religion should be taken out from school curriculum is my opinion.

HUNTER wrote:No opinion but mention the incident bellow.

I happened to visit DC; US sometime ago. One day this 'shrewd businessman' suggested me go and visit a 'very special' place.
So we went in his Oldsmobile.

It was an old building ,a church.

He said proudly that was the countries first brick building. According to his idea, there wasn't something like that in the whole world.
I asked him how old that was.
He said, it was as old as their history; 300 years!

And then, quite incidentally, he asked how old our country's history was.
..............................

Another thing he mentioned. In order to be an adult (to get their driving license and register as a citizen), everyone needs to answer a question paper which includes specific questions on history.

කිත්සිරි ද සිල්වා wrote:Once my father told us, when we built Lowa Maha Seya (known to have had 9 stories), the highest building in England was just three story building.
Now fast forward the statement into context of 21st century and see where we stand comparatively.
We are happy to wallow in the past history only.
The common definition of Karma is the other stumbling block.

කිත්සිරි ද සිල්වා wrote:History and religion should be taken out from school curriculum is my opinion.

HUNTER wrote:* Pilimathalawe was a shrewd man. He carried out many missions with near success. He  planed to get British capture the King and then chase British and give the crown to a local king.
He went to the extent that when British wanted a reason to attached king, he made some reasons by making some 'king's' men to attack some 'British' as well.
However, when Sri Vickram got to know that one of Pimlima.'s relatives was going to marry a royal lady, he got panicked and assassinated Pilima. ( I am sure Molligoda also got some part to play there.)

* Ehelepola also had the same vision but he got successful in the first half only. As I heard, his second part was messed up by people like molligoda. There are records that, after being captured, Sri Vickrama got friendly with British and tipped them of Ehelepols's real ambition and advised British to use Molligoda to backfire those efforts.

chinwi wrote:
මේක තමයි වෙන්න ඇත්තෙ. ඇය රජ කුමරියක් නම් පවුලම එන්නෙ නෑනේ. ඇගේ දෙමාපියන් හා මළනුවන් ද මෙහි විත් පදිංචු වූවාලු. තවද එම පවුල  දේපල කිසිත් නැති දුප්පතුන් වූ බවත් ලියැවී තිබේ.

Hunter wrote:* (Gossip) Ehelepola kumari hami was said to be very beautiful (සිරා කෑල්ලක්). Sri vickrama wanted to scr.....

*   Once Sri Vickrama assigned both of them as rulers for the same area it seems to make things worse.......

* (Gossip) Pillimathalawe is said to be the father of Kannasamy (Sri Vickram).  .....

ස්තූතියි.  ඔන්න මටත් මතක් උනා ඒ කතා වසර 30 කට පමණ කලින් කියවූ බව​.

nihal123 wrote:Dear slstock pls see A Collection of Books on Ceylon

http://lankapura.com/books/

http://mahavamsa.org/e-books/

http://books.lakdiva.org/

slstock wrote:Thank you Nihal. I was actually aware of those sites. Also gutenberg  site has lot of ebooks on old ceylon.

Actually I was asking whether anyone had any real old books at home  ( as hobby )

Anyway, appreciate your concern.

nihal123 wrote:Dear slstock pls see A Collection of Books on Ceylon

http://lankapura.com/books/

http://mahavamsa.org/e-books/

http://books.lakdiva.org/

Backstage wrote:

slstock wrote:Thank you Nihal. I was actually aware of those sites. Also gutenberg  site has lot of ebooks on old ceylon.

Actually I was asking whether anyone had any real old books at home  ( as hobby )

Anyway, appreciate your concern.

nihal123 wrote:Dear slstock pls see A Collection of Books on Ceylon

http://lankapura.com/books/

http://mahavamsa.org/e-books/

http://books.lakdiva.org/

Are you looking for anything specific, I have a bunch of books, Davy, D'Oyly, Geiger's Mahavamsa ect. Several on Kandyan history, I also recommend to you, Vesak Nanayakkara's "A Return to Kandy", I am sure you will enjoy the style of writing. Nira Wickramasinghe's Deconstructing of a Historical Relation with Ceylon, is a good example of the new scholarly approaches to history. I had a Knox but it seems to have gone on a walk, like Knox himself.

slstock wrote:You have the original 1st eds of  

Davy 1821st
Knox 1681

???

I have all the books you mentioned but the "Nira Wickramasinghe's Deconstructing of a Historical Relation with Ceylon"
and the 1st edition Knox.

Did you you know there were 3 Knox versions. The last one published  ( 1911) also had an  autobiography of Knox .
This autobiography was only  discovered in  early 1900s  by Ryan. It contain more info to the original "An historical ceylon ..."
It is called the Ryan edition.

Also note the title "An historical " is something unique.

Backstage wrote:

slstock wrote:Thank you Nihal. I was actually aware of those sites. Also gutenberg  site has lot of ebooks on old ceylon.

Actually I was asking whether anyone had any real old books at home  ( as hobby )

Anyway, appreciate your concern.

nihal123 wrote:Dear slstock pls see A Collection of Books on Ceylon

http://lankapura.com/books/

http://mahavamsa.org/e-books/

http://books.lakdiva.org/

Are you looking for anything specific, I have a bunch of books, Davy, D'Oyly, Geiger's Mahavamsa ect. Several on Kandyan history, I also recommend to you, Vesak Nanayakkara's "A Return to Kandy", I am sure you will enjoy the style of writing. Nira Wickramasinghe's Deconstructing of a Historical Relation with Ceylon, is a good example of the new scholarly  approaches to history. I had a Knox but it seems to have gone on a walk, like Knox himself.