Trilingual inscription from Sri Lanka

Ramanitharan Kandiah rkandia at MAILHOST.TCS.TULANE.EDU
Sun Apr 25 03:21:10 UTC 1999


At 08:23 PM 04/24/1999 -0700, you wrote:
>Has the spade work of monks, sangha, historians, archaeologists
>(eg., Paranavitaana) helped later in the "construct" of Sinhala
>ethnonationalism
>in post-independence times? Did leading monks and/or politicians
>make exclusive claims to Aryanhood which automatically bestows special
>rights?

an-AgharEga Darmapala (though not in the post-independence period saw his
thoughts in the others)





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