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Colonel H.S. Olcott, founder of Vijaya College. Matale Vijaya College [1] (Sinhala: විජය විද්යාලය), or (VCM) is a "Buddhist College" situated in Matale city center, A9 highway main road. It is the oldest Buddhist college in Matale District. Vijaya College was founded in 1886 by Henry Steel Olcott.
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Regarding the Vijaya legend, Dipavamsa has tried to be less super-natural than the later work, Mahavamsa, in referring to the husband of the Kalinga princess, ancestor of Vijaya, as a man named Sinha who was an outlaw that attacked caravans en route. In the meantime, Sinha-bahu and Sinhasivali, as king and queen of the kingdom of Lala (Lata ...
It contains the history of King Vijaya to King Vimaladharmasuriya ΙΙ. It is the only chronicle which contains continuous history of Sri Lanka written in Sinhalese language. [2] Rajavaliya considered as an secondary source when it using to study history, because it was based on pali chronicles like Mahavamsa and Deepavamsa
Members of Vijaya's community were called Sinhala, after Sinhabahu. [3] [13] [15] Vijaya's ministers and other followers established several villages; Upatissa established Upatissagāma on the bank of the Gambhira river, north of Anuradhagama. Vijaya's followers decided to crown him king, but for this he needed a maiden of a noble house as queen.
A. ^ Sinhala: මහරජ, lit. 'Great King', Sinhala pronunciation: [maharadʒə] B. ^ Should not be confused with the Hindu and Sikh princely title Maharaja .
But by then, Cinemas had also stopped making films in India and was building a huge studio, Vijaya Studio in Hendala, Wattala in Sri Lanka. [7] Although Vamadevan was an assistant cameraman, he assisted with everything in the Vijaya studio in 1960. [2] When at Vijaya Studio, his friendship with Gamini Fonseka blossomed at the Vijaya studio. [6]
The origins of the early Sinhalese kings are the settlement of North Indian Indo-Aryan immigrants to the island of Sri Lanka.Sri Lankan historian Senarath Paranavithana suggests, and according to the story in the Divyavadana, the immigrants were probably not led by a scion of a royal house in India, as told in the romantic legend, but rather may have been groups of adventurous and pioneering ...