tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2468613367801394261.post6399480866104163067..comments2019-03-08T08:47:44.731+05:30Comments on Sri Lanka Guardian: Sihalavatthu Pakarana - Book of ancient Sinhala religious storiesazadnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2468613367801394261.post-66595330694386354502008-04-10T00:57:00.000+05:302008-04-10T00:57:00.000+05:30That the Jaffna area has been under Sinhalese cult...That the Jaffna area has been under Sinhalese culture from ancient times is testified by the many Sinhala place names there, as mentioned by K. Suppaih in the 1918 translation of the Yalpanam Vibaasha kalum, and more recently in KarthiGesu Intrapala's study of ancient Jaffna (Ph.D thesis, London). For example, Dutch maps show that Vaddukkodei was known as BataKotte. Killinochchci was "Giranikke where Lumbini Vihara was located. An extremely detailed, village by village analysis of the historical and etymological details of place names in the North and East are given in the website:<BR/>http://www.geocities.com/place.names<BR/>Those interested in the Sihalavattu Pakarana would certainly find the website very interesting.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com