Here are all the possible meanings and translations of the word lineage. Princeton's WordNet(1.00 / 2 votes)Rate this definition: lineage, line, line of descent, descent, bloodline, blood line, blood, pedigree, ancestry, origin, parentage, stemma, stock(noun) the descendants of one individual.
A little known fact is that Sri Lanka is home to 125 Mammalian species. Much has been written about elephants, leopards and even on primates individually, but after W.W.A. Philipsâ review of Sri Lankaâs mammals in the 1930s, there was no comprehensive review undertaken.
Rulers of Lanka[edit] According to both the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, Lanka was originally ruled by a rakshasa named Sumali. According to Uttara Kanda, Lanka was originally built by the divine architect Vishwakarma for the gods, but was seized by the brothers, Malyavan, Sumali and Mali.