If India attempts to clear up the confusion, then Dambadiva will be inherited to Lanka

ඉන්දියාව පැටලිල්ල නිරාකරණය කළහොත් ලංකාවට උරුමවෙයි

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A statement about India from an Indian himself is very significant. But, it happens very rarely that there are wise Indians too and they come in to fair decisions.

A particular statement can be highlighted to get an idea over the nature of India, such as,  “Most of the Indians are Hindus. They do not have any concern over the Buddha. Recently, this same India tried to deceive the world by saying that they discovered a skeleton of man which is 18 feet in height. It has become the style of India to deceive the world by saying that they made new discoveries. Accepting anything coming from any part of the world without any questioning is the style in Lanka. 

This may not be the truth for all the times. Even in India, there are chances of upcoming of the thinkers who are independent, not biased, intellectual and creative, Mr. K.V. Ramakrishna Rao is a gentleman of this type, his statements are evident for that.

The lecture with the subject matter “Sawaswathie River and Hindu Civilization” delivered by him at an international conference held in New Delhi dated 26 – 28 October in 2008 is remarkable. Some of the ideas discussed there are as follows.(1)

“In making the Indian history up to date, the concepts of the British which are out dated and not based on scientific approaches should be taken off. The timing of Ashoka’s era in the Indian history is very significant.

Taking Maurya Ashoka and coupling him with the 3 century BC is an artificial approach. By doing so, a gap of 1400 years had been added to the Indian history. The Englishmen got themselves confused over Jaina Ashoka, Gautama Buddha and Jaina Mahavira(2). The intellectuals lived in Europe in the past considered that Buddhism was originated from Jainism or both Buddhism and Jainism are the same. They got confused with Jaina Gautama and Gautama Buddha and considered both of them as one person and based on that Ashoka was joined with 272 BC.

The Englishmen had done many forgeries to join Ashoka and Gautama Buddha. The finding of Piprahwa Kapilawasthu relics of Buddha was nothing but a fraud connected to prove this falsehood. The inscription found from that place which was considered as a writing of the Sakyan is a fake letter of the Englishmen. In the casket of relics found there, there had been a small gold statue which would arouse the lust of women.  The Stupa Piprahwa is not a real Stupa. It is not a ruin having connections with the architectural science but more with the engineering science.

In order to determine the time of the reign of Ashoka, fake inscriptions in Nepal written by Anton Alois himself had been used. The Lomas Rishi Cave too has been taken in to the fake Ashoka era of 272 BC. The history made by the Englishmen is accepted by India. But this history which was written and handed over to India is based on the fake inscriptions made by the Englishmen.”

According to Mr Rao a great disaster is done for history in Lanka. But, why isn’t it seen by the scholars in Lanka?

Today and in the past, the discovery of the archeological site in Lumbini which is considered as the birth place of the Buddha was a great puzzle for the scholars in the Britain.They consider this discovery as an incident which is tortuous and fake.

Dr Hoey says that Fuhrer had mentioned a lie after lie about this matter. The historian, V.A. Smith explains that many years before 1896, he was able to take the copies of the inscriptions of the broken  part of the Lumbini pillar which was lying above the ground level and the letters found in them date back to the middle era but there wasn’t an inscription containing Ashoka texts.

But Fuhrer had replied that if excavations were executed near the broken pillar, it is possible to find the parts of the pillar with Ashoka inscriptions. As it was predicted by Fuhrer when he was in charge of the archeological site in Lumbini, a part of a pillar with Ashoka inscriptions was discovered in 1896 nearly one meter below the ground level of the site.

Rhys David (3) says that in 1900 he examined this particular part of the pillar with the Ashoka inscriptions which was lying under the ground, meaning,  4 years after the year of the discovery,  and noticed clearly that those texts had been engraved in the most recent past.

Fifty years after that, two professors, Professor Dutt and Professor Bajapi also examined this and both of them too had the same viewpoint over this matter i.e. the engraving of the inscription had been done in the recent past. And they were surprised over the matter that these inscriptions haven’t experienced any climate change. 

The pillar inscription found in Nepal was possessed with many writing mistakes. In comparing with the Ashoka rock inscription, writing the letters with gaps found in this inscription was questionable. And also the scholars say that the word “Sakyamunithi - සාක්‍යමුනිති” fund in this inscription do not come in to the Ashoka era. They considered that these words as something originated in the later part of the development of the language.

“Sakyamunithi - සාක්‍යමුනිති ” is not a correct reading, the scholars say.  What is found exactly there is “ Sayomunithi  - සයොමුනිති”. A text similar to this is engraved in the gem exhibited in the Laknaw Museum too.  The fraud done was revealed when this gem was examined over the sunlight.  Most of the scientists lived that day indisputably accepted that this pillar inscription and the text in the gem as something done by Futhrer. Maya Devi monastery located in Lumbini is considered as a Buddhist monastery. But at this place there had been a Hindu Kovil in the past i.e.  a Hindu temple.  A head of God Ganesh (4)  and a statue of a headless goddess had been discovered among the other ruins. Later, an extra part of a head and a hand hanging on to a branch of a Asoka Tree had been fixed in to this headless goddess to give an impression that it is a scene where Maya Devi gave the birth to a child. It is confirmed that this place had been built in the 8^th century AD.

And also the officer E.J. Thomas had mentioned that the administrative authority for that area and the villages had called this place as Rupadei, but not Rummindei. Dr Hoey and Dr Wadell say that two years before the finding of the inscription which was installed for the expansion of Konagamana Stupa, they had taken the copies of the pillar situated there with the assistance of the regional governor and there hadn’t been inscriptions with Ashoka texts. They had mentioned further that what they discovered from that place are some the ruins of a palace. ( Lumbini on Trial , T.A. Phelps).

The book “හෙළ බුදු උරුමය අහිමි තැන් - The lost places of the heritage of Buddha in Heladiva” had already discussed that Lumbini is situated in Sri Lanka (page 8, 9, 10).  A rocky figure which depicts the birth of Prince Siddhaartha is just thrown to a corner in the Anuradapura museum.

 (1) What is mentioned above is not the original lecture delivered by K.V. Ramakrishna Rao, but is a translation of the text in the Sinhala Book  “ Dambadiva Urumaya Helayatai”.

(2) Refer {දඹදිව උරුමය හෙළයාටයි (The people in Sri Lanka only can claim the heritage of Dambadiva)}  Part XI for Mahavira and examine the similarities of Mahvira and Gautama Buddha. (Source-Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia).

(3) Thomas William Rhys Davids (12 May 1843 – 27 December 1922) was a British scholar of the Pāli language and founder of the Pali Text Society.

(4)Ganesha (Sanskrit: गणेश) also spelled Ganesa and Ganesh, also known as Ganapati (Sanskrit: गणपति, gaṇapati), Vinayaka (Sanskrit: विनायक; IAST: Vināyaka), Vighnavinashaka, Gajanana and Pillaiyar (Tamil: பிள்ளையார்), is one of the best-known and most widely worshipped deities in the Hindu pantheon.

{The English translation of 'දඹදිව උරුමය හෙළයාටයි'
(The people in Sri Lanka only can claim the heritage of Dambadiva)}- Part III   

Translated by Amal Meemanage (amalmeemanage@gmail.com)