விஜயனின் இலங்கை வருகை

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விஜயனின் இலங்கை வருகை

1956‍ல் விஜயனின் வருகை என்ற தலைப்புடன் சிறப்பு தபால் முத்திரை ஒன்றை இலங்கை அரசு வெளியிட்டது. அதில் மரத்தடியில் அமர்ந்திருக்கும் குவேனியிடம், இந்தியவிலிருந்து கப்பலில் வந்து இறங்கிய விஜயன் அடைக்கலம் கோரும் காட்சி சித்தரிக்கப்பட்டுள்ளது.

ஆதாரம் : முகிலோசை

The arrival of Vijaya in Sri Lanka is narrated in the Mahavamsa as follows:

Dr Lankamithra Fernando`s Article from lankanewspapers.com

Vijaya was of evil conduct and his followers were like himself, and many intolerable deeds of violence were done by them. Angered by this the people told the matter to the king the king, speaking persuasively to them, severely blamed. his son. But all fell out again as before, the second and yet the third time and the angered people said to the king: `Kill thy son.`

Then did the king cause Vijaya and his followers, seven hundred men, to be shaven over half the head and put them on a ship and sent them forth upon the sea, and their wives and children also. The men, women, and children sent forth separately landed separately, each [company] upon an island, and they dwelt even there. The island where the children landed was called Nagadipa and the island where the women landed Mahiladipaka. But Vijaya landed at the haven called Suppäraka, but being there in danger by reason of the violence of his followers be embarked again.

The prince named VIJAYA, the valiant, landed in Lanka, in the region called Tambapanni on the day that the Tathagata lay down between the two twinlike sala-trees to pass into Nibbana.

Here ends the sixth chapter, called The Coming of Vijay of the Mahavamsa, compiled for the serene joy and emotion of the pious.?

(Mahavamsa Chapter VI The Coming of Vijaya)

Vijaya was the first king of Sri Lanka and ruled for 38 years from 543 BC to 504 BC. The Sinhala race is believed to have originated from King Vijaya, who first produced two children with Kuveni - a pretty witch or yakkini and who was Queen of Yakkas, whom he met on his arrival. Later Vijaya chased Kuveni and his children from the kingdom and married a princess from South India, the daughter of a Pandu King.

The Kuveni-Vijaya myth has its parallel in the encounter of Odysseus with Circe. Odysseus or Ulysses is a hero and Circe is a pretty goddess from the island of Aeaea, according to the Greek mythological poem written by the great epic poet Homer, who lived in Ionia (present day Turkey) in the 8th century BC

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