Mahāvaṃsa, the Great Chronicle of Sri Lanka: Chapters One to Thirty-seven : an Annotated New Translation with Prolegomena |
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... South India . Even when we commence with the Mauryan period as the baseline , the information on South India is very meagre . As pointed out by K. A. Nilakanta Sastri , " The most direct clues ...... are furnished by the references to the ...
... South India . Even when we commence with the Mauryan period as the baseline , the information on South India is very meagre . As pointed out by K. A. Nilakanta Sastri , " The most direct clues ...... are furnished by the references to the ...
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... South India and for which they were lionized and eulogized in the Sangam literature . They reflect an age of adventurers who sought their personal fortunes rather than one in which entire populations moved into new territories either to ...
... South India and for which they were lionized and eulogized in the Sangam literature . They reflect an age of adventurers who sought their personal fortunes rather than one in which entire populations moved into new territories either to ...
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... South - Indian inscription at the Temple of Tiruvalisvara in Arpakkama . Thus for the second half of the twelfth century the existence of the Ceylon era , reckoned from 544 , is established with certainty . Now according to the ...
... South - Indian inscription at the Temple of Tiruvalisvara in Arpakkama . Thus for the second half of the twelfth century the existence of the Ceylon era , reckoned from 544 , is established with certainty . Now according to the ...
Contents
Foreword by His Excellency J R Jayewardene | 1 |
Chapter | 11 |
H Why Prolegomena? | 25 |
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