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In Sri Lanka, Kali is venerated and called upon by Buddhists and Hindus. She is a type of mother goddess, sometimes invoked to fight disease, [40] and a maid of the Goddess Pattini. [41] In Sinhala Buddhism, her origin is explained through her arriving at Munneśvaram from South India, eating humans, and attempting to eat Pattini, who instead ...
Kali is an Indian given name and surname of Sanskrit origins from the name Kālá. [1] It is also a Finnish masculine given name that is a form of Kalle . [ 2 ] Notable people with this name include the following:
Sri Lanka (Sinhala: ශ්රී ලංකා, romanized: Śrī Lankā; Tamil: சிறி லங்கா / இலங்கை, romanized: Ilaṅkai), officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in the northern Indian Ocean which has been known under various names over time.
Statue at the temple of a guardian with a very similar appearance to Kali. Pathirakali Amman Temple (Tamil: பத்திரகாளி அம்பாள் கோயில்) – Pathirakali Ambal Kovil – or the Kali Kovil, Trincomalee is a Hindu temple dedicated to the goddess Bhadrakali, a form of the goddess Kali Amman in Trincomalee, Eastern Province, Sri Lanka.
The Tamil language is spoken by native Sri Lankan Tamils and is also spoken by Indian Tamils of Sri Lanka and by most Sri Lankan Moors. Tamil speakers number around 4.8 million (29% of the population), making it the second largest language in Sri Lanka. There are more than 40,000 speakers of the Sri Lankan Malay language.
The Sri Lankan Kaffirs (cafrinhas in Portuguese, කාපිරි kāpiriyō in Sinhala, and காப்பிலி kāppili in Tamil) are an ethnic group in Sri Lanka who are partially descended from 16th-century Portuguese traders and Bantu slaves who were brought by them to work as labourers and soldiers [2] to fight against the Sinhala ...
Kali language, Niger-Congo language of Cameroon; Alice International Airport, Texas, U.S., ICAO airport code KALI; Arnis, or Kali, the national martial art of the Philippines; Kayah Li alphabet, ISO 15924 code kali; Kvass, or kali, a traditional fermented Slavic and Baltic beverage; Sherbet (powder), or kali a fizzy powder sweet
Sri Lanka Freedom Party: Sirimavo Bandaranaike II: 7th [11] 1970: 7 years, 1 month and 24 days: Sirimavo Bandaranaike declared the country a republic, and changed the name of the country from Ceylon to Sri Lanka. [17] Nationalized many companies in the plantation sector and imposed restrictions on several imports.