as the bloody conflict in Sri Lanka was playing itself out.That made me conceive of background to it in terms of the Tamil diaspora and the Chola dynasty; of a millennium or more, not decades.
"This one will run and run," as Fergus might have said.
(It also helped me to get some sort of handle on Rama and Hanuman turning up in the names of muay Thai techniques.)
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The Mahavamsa ("Great Chronicle") is a historical poem written in the Pali language, of the kings of Sri Lanka. It covers the period from the coming of King Vijaya of Kalinga (ancient Orissa) in 543 BCE to the reign of King Mahasena (334–361).
It recounts a number of conflicts between the inhabitants of Ceylon and the Tamil immigrants.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
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