I have been posting on the historicity of Lord Rama and am planning to write on the Birth date od Lord Krishna.
While I was ‘Story telling’ my grand son, 4, he asked me whether Ravana was real or a story.
That struck me.
Scenes from The Ramayana
I have been going after facts on Lord Rama, the route taken by Him, His Birth Date and never for a moment it struck me to go after Ravana.
If Lord Rama is real, so should Ravana Be, as the whole Ramayana minus Ravana is Zero!
I did some checks and this Post.
A Study by Tharaka Devinda Gunasekera, a Sri Lankan( what better source could there be!) attempts to prove Ravana was real.
The author has sifted Facts from Myths and has done a good interpretation.
His proof consists of Three facts.
1.The Runways built by Ravana are still intact.
2. Ravana’s Pushpaka Vimana,Fore runner of modern Airplane.
.3.The Sunken city of Ravana.
4.The place where Sita was incarcerated.
The Airstrips ,Runways of Ravana.
“The first clue that comes to us is from three places still intact. Those are Maha-eliya
(Known today as Horton’s plains named after the person who shot down all the deer in the
park, to the last one), Ussangoda in Hambanthota and “Wariyapola”.
. What do these places 7
have in common? For starters, all these places are flat lands with wide open areas, ideal for
landing an airborne craft.
The place name “Wariyapola” breaks down in to “Air-Ship-Port” (Waa=air). Couple
together this, with the fact that almost all the place names in this country has a history that
made them, we have our first clue, the runway lines of the king’s airplane, or was it fleet?
Ussangoda, Sri Lanka
Ussangoda also seems a good spot for landing an aircraft. But the land is somewhat tilted
in some areas. The best craft to land there would be a helicopter. But we also know that it is
possible to land airplanes in a short distance, which is done in a fighter carrier. There are
certain models that can land vertically too. Thus, the uneven ground may not be a problem. It
might have been completely flat by the time of Ravana, so the problems might not have been
there at all. The fact that, the Ussangoda rock has no high rising trees is intriguing. The soil
there does not support high growing trees, not even coconuts that grow normally in that area
are there on the rock formation.
2.The Plane,Pushpaka Vimana.
Findings from a pyramid in Egypt revealed four airplane structures shown in terracotta
slabs. Among them are the two crafts that show resemblance to the current day helicopter and
the passenger airplane. A third is said to show a structure similar to a faster craft may be used
in battle. There is however references that the queen “Devayani”, mother of Tharaka, 8
Surapadma and Sinha-mukha, showed her sons how the bombing is done. Where it is said that
rock turned into marble. Only at very high temperatures will this happen and either a nuclear or
a plasma grade weapon is necessary to do such damage.
(Suriya Gunasekera, 2006)
There are findings of airplane like structures all round the world. The first is from Egypt,
which resembles a bird. Although archaeologists categorised it as a bird at first, people now
have their doubts about it. The wings that are flat as well as a tail which is vertical rather than
horizontal are the facts that tell us it’s actually a sculpture of an airplane.
Vimanaas-Planes In ancient India
The writings on the sculpture said it was the “Gift of Amon”. “Amon” is the god of wind in
Egyptian mythology. As I suspect, this is not a gift from Amon, but a gift to Amon. From whom, I
do not know, but it might as well be from Ravana.
A similar finding was done in Central America and coastlines of South America. This time
it was made out of gold rather than wood. The sculpture shows patterns of wind upon it very
clearly.
The sunken City of Ravana.
In the South-East of Sri Lanka there are two lighthouses erected on two small islands,
known even today as “Maha Ravana Kotte” (Great Basses) and “Kuda Ravana Kotte”. The word
“Kotte” may well be fort. There is evidence in the nearby vicinity that depicts the ruins of a fort
or a citadel. However the rocks that are visible only in the low tide can only be examined with
great care as the sea is very rough in the area.
The “Lankapura” that is in the Ramayana cannot be located anywhere in the island.
Therefore the only clues that come from are from the sea. The findings from a Babylonian
terracotta slab revealed that the city Babylon was constructed according to the instructions
given by the “Lion People” that came from the sky. This is acceptable, since we know that the
king Sinha-Mukha (Lion Mouth?) built the city, and he may have led a team of engineers to help
build Babylon according to his city. Comparing the records of Plato (4th Cent. BC) and the
description that comes from Ramayana’s Hanuman, Plato’s Atlantis and Hanuman’s Lankapura
seem to be the same.
Then where is this city of gold? To find the city now, we would have to dive deep in the
eastern seas of Sri Lanka. Legend has it after the death of Ravana; the city sank into the sea.
Clues can be found in the areas given above, where the lighthouses were and the areas of
Trincomalee. The lover’s leap is a ridge of rock that is no natural formation, a good indicator
that the land that was once connected to it, sank in to the sea.
People still have no correct answer to whether the city was actually there or how it sank,
but recent history tells us how it sank. The tidal wave that hit the eastern shore tore apart most
of the buildings and took many lives. We could place our doubt in a larger scale tidal wave,
bringing the city down. Since there are no ground structures even islands left in the eastern
shoreline, we can assume that most of the city was artificially built ground
Other Facts.
There are several other scattered facts that support the existence of Ravana. One of them
is a holding cell that is said to have held “Seetha” while Ravana was carrying her to his kingdom.
This is found in the Devinuwara area. This conflict with the stories that tell Seetha was held in
the hill country where “Seetha-eliya” is. But as we know, the kingdom that we know as
“Lankapura”, was in the Eastern shores of the island. The holding cell that we talk about,
support that fact. It was supposed to have made for Seetha to rest on the journey to the
capital.
Side view of the Place where Sita was imprisoned,Lankapura.
We took into account various facts and sources that prove or disprove the existence of
Ravana. From all these facts that have been laid out, my opinion is that Ravana did exist. The
ambiguities that arise saying otherwise are there because of the lack of solid facts. But, like all
other great findings, they will come some day, slowly though, to prove that there was actually a
great kingdom, here in our country.
History is the very foundation of a civilization. Our history is golden compared to other
countries’ past records. But some have ignored it or covered it with a veil of dust and mud. It is
time for us to clean that dust and rediscover the gold that lies within our legends, the golden
part that lies within us ourselves. It is time to rewrite our history from scratch, to rewrite the
true version; not something that was planted there purposely.
Finally, I tell you, Ravana is solid fact. There is too mush evidence to believe he was only a
myth. A real king that walked in our country, leading it to be the world’s number one.
Satellite has shown the existence of bridge between India & Sri Lanka. At Anuradhapura hills, you will find a large patch of vegetation which doesnt tally with the local vegetation at all and corresponds to Himalayan Vegetation..
Rakpakshe government has been trumpeting that they have been Developmental Plans for the Tamils in Sri Lanka for Tamils post LTTE, genocide era.
Killing of Tamils,Sri Lanka
Facts seem to indicate other wise.
1.Victors,though this term is an inappropriate term to use for killing your own citizens,this is the term what Rajapakshe government uses,
need to be magnanimous,
Lanka Government has opened up a Museum on the War , insulting the Tamils and is promoting it as a Tourist attraction.(read my post for Details)
Sri Lanka’s War Museum.
2.The Government has announced training programmes for The Tamils.
Tamil Girls are molested and Tamil men return with fear truly terrified.
3.Religious Freedom,Attacks on Muslims.
Though the Sri Lanka Government speaks of tolerance; the reality is otherwise.
Muslims were made to go against the Tamils and after the Genocide Muslims have become the target of attacked by the Buddhist extremists.(read my spot )
This is what The Institute on Religious and Public Policy has to say in its 2012 Report.
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(15) The BBC reported in January 2011 that foreign Muslim preachers in Sri Lanka were ordered to leave the country for violating visa regulations. Sir Lanka’s immigration head Chulanada Perera told AFP news agency, “They have violated immigration laws. A tourist visa is to have a holiday or visit friends and family, and not to preach Islam”.
(16) In September 2011, mobs, allegedly led by Buddhist monks, destroyed a Muslim religious site in the Buddhist city of Anuradhapura.
(17) Public Relations Minister Mervyn Silva, who is a member of the Buddhist majority party, organized and led a protest march in September 2011 to force Hindus to stop the traditional religious ceremony that involves public animal sacrifice. Minister Silva argued that animal sacrifice harms the public image of Sri Lanka. Police reported that they had a court order to halt the animal sacrifice due to requests from activists, and increased the security level in the area because of the unrest.
(18) According to a news report in November 2011, the Ministry of Education did not allow Catholic and Christian students to register for religion exams in English. The Ministry offered examinations only in Sinhala and Tamil. The Archbishop of Colombo, Cardinal Ranjith appealed to the government in his writing, “the majority of students follow their religion in the “English medium,” and therefore should have the opportunity to do the exam in that language”. However, the Ministry of Education rejected his appeal.”
4. Resettlement of Tamils.
Rather than resettling displaced Tamils, since the war ended, the Sri Lankan armed forces have occupied a further 7,000 sq km of land owned by Tamil people.
So what do the government’s claims of resettlement mean?
“According to the government’s own figures as at 1st July 2011, 258,446 had been ‘returned’ or ‘resettled’ from welfare camps, leaving 12,661 in the Kadirgamar, Anandakumarasawmi (Zone 1), Arunachalam (Zone III) IDP camps. The most current figures suggest that only 7,440 persons remain in these camps, insinuating that all others have been returned or resettled.
“What the statistics do not reveal is that over 200,000 persons in the North and East have not been returned to their places of origin. These persons either continue to be confined in transit camps or have been compelled to take shelter with host families [elsewhere].
“Such persons include those displaced from Valikamam North in the Jaffna Peninsula, Sampur in the Trincomalee District, and several other areas in the Vanni.”
– M.A. Sumanthiran, TNA parliamentarian. See The Hindu’s report here.“
Worse is the government is moving two Sinhalese families for one family of Tamils being resettled in Tamil Areas.
Now in Trincomalee,which used to be a Tamil majority area, Sinhalese are equal to Tamils numerically.
5.Lands of the Tamils have been confiscated , and are either with the Military of handed over to Sinhalese.
6.The Military regime is so tight that even for a family function The Tamils have to get permission from the military, which, usually, is refused.
7.Rape of Tamil Women.
Can rape be far behind when Sri Lanka army is on Duty?
Rapes and killing of Tamil Men are routine.
“( June 06, 2012, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian)Women and children are at the receiving end of serious crimes due to political interference and the failure of the police to carry out law and order in the country states Socialist Women’s Union (SWU) and pointed out that a woman is raped somewhere in Sri Lanka every 90 minutes.
SWU points out that this state is due to the introduction of the free economy to the country which destroyed human relationships and created a society that decides everything on money. This was stated by the National Organizer of the SWU Samanmalee Gunasinghe at a special media meeting held at the head office of the JVP at Pelawatta today (5th).”(Srilanka Guardian 6 June, 2012)
Tamils raped post War,Genocide.
Report by Human Rights Watch.
Published on Feb 26, 2013
(London, February 26, 2013) — Sri Lankan security forces have been using rape and other forms of sexual violence to torture suspected members or supporters of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. While widespread rape in custody occurred during the armed conflict that ended in May 2009, Human Rights Watch found that politically motivated sexual violence by the military and police continues to the present.
The 140-page report, “‘We Will Teach You a Lesson’: Sexual Violence against Tamils by Sri Lankan Security Forces,” provides detailed accounts of 75 cases of alleged rape and sexual abuse that occurred from 2006-2012 in both official and secret detention centers throughout Sri Lanka. In the cases documented by Human Rights Watch, men and women reported being raped on multiple days, often by several people, with the army, police, and pro-government paramilitary groups frequently participating.
This is what Human Rights watch has to say on this subject.
“Human Rights Watch (HRW) [advocacy website] said [press release] Monday that no progress has been made in Sri Lanka regarding respect for basic rights and liberties in the four years since the end of the country’s brutal 26-year civil war [JURIST backgrounder]. According to HRW, the government of Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa [official website] has failed to investigate and prosecute alleged war crimes, has cracked down on media and human rights activists, and has continued to abuse suspectedLiberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) [CFR backgrounder] supporters, despite Rajapaska’s promise to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon [official profile]. Since 2009, government officials have reportedly threatened members of the media, civil society and the political opposition, and publications have been subject to government censorship, or, in some cases, shut down. HRW Asia Director Brad Adams said:
The Rajapaksa government seems to be hoping that broad-based repression will dampen the exercise of fundamental freedoms. But Sri Lankan activists and journalists who showed incredible resilience during wartime to bring forth the truth, will undoubtedly find a way to do so when the country is at peace.
HRW urged governments to press for an independent international investigation into wartime abuses, speak out against ongoing abuses and provide support for Sri Lankan civil society.
The Sri Lankan government has faced various allegations of human rights violations and war crimes by civil rights organizations and the UN since the end of its civil war in 2009. In March the UN Human Rights Council passed a resolution [JURIST report] to promote reconciliation and accountability in Sri Lanka. In February Sri Lankan authorities were accused of using rape [JURIST report] as a method of interrogating members or supporters of the LTTE. Earlier that same month the UN criticized Sri Lanka for failing to investigate war crimes, and HRW pushed [JURIST reports] for an independent investigation of rights abuses.”
Following is a short History of the genocide of The Tamils in SriLanka.
Successive Lankan Governments have used the Tamil Card to gain power and used terror against the Tamils to sustain their power.
Excerpts from different sources to get a fair view.
Tamil genocide Sri Lanka
Stephen Senenayake was the first Prime Minister of Ceylon, when Ceylon became independent on 4 February 1948. The first Act he introduced in the parliament was the Ceylon Citizen Bill on 15 September 1948, that effectively disenfranchised the Indian Tamils. The Indian Tamils are also known as Hill Country Tamils, Up-country Tamils or simplyIndian Tamils.
The are descended from workers sent from South India to Sri Lanka in the 19th and 20th centuries to work in coffee, tea and rubber plantations. Some became merchants and others service providers in the towns. These Tamil-speakers mostly live in the central highlands and also major urban areas and in the Northern province.
To create the plantation industry they toiled through the malaria infested jungle. In the whole process a good percentage of them died. The plantation sector economy brought prosperity to Sri Lanka but socially and economically their standard of living is below that of the national average. These people are now disfranchised That is justice in Sri Lanka.
D.S Senanayake was respected by Sinhalese and some Muslims. However, Tamils were not happy with his citizenship laws, which disenfranchised virtually all Tamils of recent Indian origin living in the central highlands. He set in motion the first ethnic cleansing, which was followed by all Sinhalese leaders thereafter.
Another Sinhalese leader, Solomon West Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaikeorganised the Sinhala Maha Sabha in 1936. In 1946 he backed the United National Party (UNP) and held ministerial posts from 1947 to 1951. In 1951, Bandaranaike led his Sinhala Maha Sabha faction out of the UNP and established the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP).
Bandaranaike became prime minister after winning the 1956 elections in a landslide merely by emphasising on the language issue. He made Sinhala the official language of the country, downgrading the official status of Tamil andEnglish and promoting socialist, anti-Western policies that profoundly changed the course of Ceylonese politics in the following decades.
His policies galvanised the Tamils, and under the leadership of Thanthai Chelvanayagam, peaceful demonstrations were held. These were brutally suppressed by the Sinhalese thugs and police. Then followed a series of riots, the first of which was in 1956. This was the beginning of the present ethnic problem. This was the beginning of the second ethnic cleansing; the driving out of the Sri Lankan Tamils, who were in Sri Lanka for more than 2,000 years, so that the entire island would become a Sinhala Buddhist country….
The act was strongly opposed by certain sections of the Sinhalese community led by Jeyawardene, and was eventually torn up by Prime Minister Bandaranaike in May 1958. The abandonment of the pact led to tensions between the two communities, resulting in a series of outbreaks of ethnic violence in the country which eventually spiralled into the 26 year Sri Lankan Civil War. Prime Minister Bandaranaike’s later attempts to pass legislation, similar to the agreement, was met by strong opposition, and led to his assassination by a Buddhist monk in 1959.
After his death his wife, Sirimavo Ratwatte Dias Bandaranaike, took over the government. The most important thing she did was to find a solution to the festering problem of the Indian Tamils.
When Sri Lanka disfranchised the Indian Tamils the government of India had made it clear to Sri Lanka that it would not accept responsibility for those Indians whose applications for citizenship were rejected by the Sri Lanka. Discussions between the two governments continued, and in October 1964 agreement was reached between Sirima Bandaranaike, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, and Lal Bhadur Shastri, Prime Minister of India, called the “Sirima Shastri Pact” in 1964
The ideology of the Sri Lankan regime uses a mythologised history drawing from religious texts to assert that the whole of the island has been Sinhala and Buddhist by divine sanction for 2500 years — since being visited by Buddha.
While it is true that Sinhala Buddhist societies have existed in Sri Lanka for over two millenia, the Tamil presence also dates from antiquity. While the Sinhala-chauvinist official history maintains that the Tamils were later invaders, this is not at all clear from the actual historical and archaelogical record.
What is clear is that for centuries Tamil and Sinhala kingdoms coexisted on the island. When Portuguese traders visited the island in 1505 there was a northern Tamil kingdom and two Sinhala kingdoms.
By 1619, the Portuguese had changed from traders to colonialists and began overthrowing the indigenous kingdoms, bringing in three centuries of European rule, which created an economy based on plantation monoculture for export and a single state covering the island. The plantation economy and unitary state are at the centre of the current conflict.
The Sinhala-chauvinist ideology is modern, originating in the late 19th century amongst Buddhist monks who were anxious to defend their theocratic privileges from British encroachment. In the 20th century, nationalist and socialist groups developed that were secular and multinational in character.
However, when the British granted independence in 1948, politicians used populist appeals to Sinhala chauvinism to distract from their inability to satisfy popular expectations.
Immediately after independence, a million Tamil plantation workers lost their citizenship and right to vote. A majority of these stateless Tamils were deported in the 1960s and ’70s.
In the lead-up to the 1956 elections, the Buddhist clergy launched a racist anti-Tamil movement that culminated in the first pogrom against Tamils. It also proved that the clergy could swing elections and secured their position in the political elite.
Following the 1956 elections, laws were enacted making Sinhala the only official language. This excluded most Tamils from public sector employment.
A number of Tamil political parties contested elections on a platform of equal rights. Their inability to prevent further discrimination created sentiment for Tamil independence. By 1980 the Tamil United Liberation Front, that called for self-determination, had become the largest opposition party in the Sri Lankan parliament.
The 1983 pogrom, which took 3000 lives and caused 150,000 Tamils to flee abroad, became the watershed that caused a majority of Sri Lankan Tamils to support the armed struggle for independence by the LTTE, waged since the 1970s.
The SLA’s war against the Tamil population has involved some of the world’s worst war crimes. Civilians have been targetted: orphanages and hospitals have been regularly bombed. Starvation sieges have been imposed, including after the December 26, 2004 tsunami.
Torture, rape and random killings have been perpetrated by the military and pro-government paramilitaries.
Underpinning this war has been Western military aid and political support. This reflects Sri Lanka’s strategic significance, but also that the military, political and theocratic elites that rule Sri Lanka maintain Western domination of the economy that still follows the colonial export-oriented model.
The major suppliers of arms are the US and Israel. Israel provides Kfir jets and illegal cluster munitions and the Israeli secret police, Mossad, train Sri Lankan special forces and paramilitary death squads.
Asked about the Bharatiya Janata Party’s demand that India scale down its diplomatic relations with Pakistan, he said: “We are incensed at this issue. In general, if we are angry with someone and consider them our enemy, we just cannot stop talking to them completely. It is enough if we make them know that we are furious… In the same way, we cannot break off dialogue with Pakistan…”
ManMohan Singh.
‘Prime Minister Manmohan Singhon Saturday said India does not want to “accentuate” the situation in the wake of the recent Chinese incursion in Ladakh and is working on a plan to resolve it.”
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