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Kandyan jewellery comes from the hill capital of Ceylon or Sri Lanka. The Kandyan Kingdom lasted till 1815 resulting in the original sets of jewellery and designs still being preserved and worn by Kandyan families today. Kandyan jewellery is handmade and was designed specifically for the royal families. It carries symbols of wealth, prosperity ...
Sri Lanka, geologically speaking is an extremely old country. Ninety percent of the rocks of the island are of Precambrian age, 560 million to 2,400 million years ago. The gems form in sedimentary residual gem deposits, eluvial deposits, metamorphic deposits, skarn and calcium-rich rocks. Nearly all the gem formations in Sri Lanka are located ...
(Greek mythology) Artemis's arrow, golden arrows that could be used to bring sudden death and disease to girls and women. (Greek mythology) Arrow of Brahma, the demi-god Rama faced the demon king of Sri-Lanka, Ravana. Rama fired the arrow of Brahma that had been imparted to him by Agastya. The arrow of Brahma burst Ravana's navel, and returned ...
The Ruwanweli Maha Seya, also known as the Maha Thupa (lit. ' the Great Thupa '), is a stupa (a hemispherical structure containing relics) in Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka.Two quarts or one Dona of the Buddha's relics are enshrined in the stupa, making it the largest collection of his relics anywhere. [1]
Taprobana (Latin: Taprobana; Ancient Greek: Ταπροβανᾶ), Trapobana, and Taprobane (Ταπροβανῆ, Ταπροβάνη [1]) was the name by which the Indian Ocean island of Sri Lanka was known to the ancient Greeks. Tabrobane is suggested to be derived from Tamil "Tamraparni". [2]
Category: Sri Lankan mythology. ... (Lanka) S. Sinhabahu This page was last edited on 21 August 2024, at 18:27 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...