The love story in Isurumuniya

ඉසුරුමුණියේ පෙම් කතාව

The historical love story occurred in Isurumuniya had been taken out from the history. In suppressing this, a story of Saliya (1)  – Ashokamaalaa had been merged in to this. The real incident happened in the ancient times had been ended up to hide the facts in the Hela history. Because of this, the rock sculpturing which was based on the love story in Isurumuniya was diverted in to a different root.

Vessagiriya was an Academy of Science which was managed by Sages in Heladiva. The master of this academy was Sage Thrunavindu. Amongst other students, the pupil Pulasthi enjoyed a special place. Those days the pupil was named as “Batha” (බත in Sinhala language). The inscriptions in Vessagiriya say that there had been several pupils carrying this name Batha. Amongst is an inscription called “ Batha Pulaha” (“බත පලහ‍” in Sinhala language). Based on these information, there are chances for that one to be “Batha Pulaha as well. (“බත පුලහ‍” in Sinhala language). If it happens in this manner, this incident can be accepted with more confidence. Whatever it is, there are some more facts among within these inscriptions which can be used to prove this incident. In addition to this, the rocky piece of work found here suggests to add extra weight to the belief that it has connections with this incident. 

Pulasthi, the pupil and daughter of Sage Thrunavindu? - Isurumuniya

The description given in Ramayana with regards to this story is very unusual and not trustworthy. (Volume 3, page 199, G S B Senanayake). When we look in to the nature of the story of the relationship between the daughter of Sage Thrunavindu and Pulasthi, in order to trace out this legendry love story, the Ramayana had created a very peculiar story around it. A Sage, a Muni, a hermit cursing a young girl is actually a very strange incident. And also this peculiar curse is a very strange one. That curse expects for her be pregnant. It is very clear that this is not a true story but a hateful idea of the Indian authors.

Based on above mentioned statements, it is very clearly seen that Ramayana had gone up to the extent of taking out this mighty love story in Heladiva from the history. It is not necessary to present any logic to prove that Pali Mahavamsa in Lanka had played the supporting role for the Indian Ramayana. It is then necessary to accept that above mentioned rocky artistic creations depict the love story of the daughter of Sage Thrunavindu and his pupil Pulasthi. The Mangala Sutta Attakathaa (2) is an example to show that information of this nature had been included in Hela commentaries. It is positively proved that those most ancient Hela Commentaries had been burnt out in fire to end up the genuine historical information of places such as Vessagiriya.  

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1 - Saliya is considered as the son of the great King Dutugamunu. Some say that Prince Saliya was fallen in love with a low caste woman called and Ashokamaalaa and because of that he could not come in to throne after his father. But some do not accept this that Ashokamaalaa is a woman og the low caste.

Another view point of the the mother queen of King Dutugamunu is a decendent of  King Sumana who was revered as a God Sumana.Kind Samana’s son was King dama. His son was King Mahatisa Aya ( King Kelani Tissa) and Abhisawera is is his daughter. Later, she was known as Queen Vihara Maha Devi. Read ‘මෙතේ බෝසත් බවට ගෞතම බුදුන්ගෙන් විවරණ ලැබූ දුටුගැමුණු මහා රජාණෝ (2011) – The Great King Dutugamunu who was announced as the Maithriya Bosath by Gautama Buddha ’ for more details.  

2 - The Mangala Sutta Comentaries.

{The English translation of 'ඉසි රමණ විහර' (Isi Ramana Vihara) - Part - V

Translated by Amal Meemanage (amalmeemanage@gmail.com)