Comments on: George Turnour’s edition of the Mahavansa http://mahavamsa.org/2008/05/introduction-george-turnour/ The Great Chronicle of Sri Lanka Fri, 20 Apr 2012 14:12:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: bandara http://mahavamsa.org/2008/05/introduction-george-turnour/comment-page-1/#comment-1677 bandara Fri, 20 Apr 2012 14:12:32 +0000 http://mahavamsa.org/?p=466#comment-1677 why have you picked on Ranil Wickremasinghe? He was Prime Minster of Sri Lanka for nearly 2 years and he did not have the executive power as CBK was the President then. how narrow minded and politically bias to condemn RW who runs the country only for 2 years. You failed to see CBK who was in power for nearly 12yr with executive power who could have changed school curriculum and introduced history to school children. however apart from blaming RW, your have made valid points on which I totally agree with you. you are also correct in saying that Sanskrit is the root for both Pali and our Sinhala language. why have you picked on Ranil Wickremasinghe? He was Prime Minster of Sri Lanka for nearly 2 years and he did not have the executive power as CBK was the President then.

how narrow minded and politically bias to condemn RW who runs the country only for 2 years. You failed to see CBK who was in power for nearly 12yr with executive power who could have changed school curriculum and introduced history to school children.

however apart from blaming RW, your have made valid points on which I totally agree with you. you are also correct in saying that Sanskrit is the root for both Pali and our Sinhala language.

]]> By: D Jayakody http://mahavamsa.org/2008/05/introduction-george-turnour/comment-page-1/#comment-262 D Jayakody Sat, 11 Jul 2009 10:32:23 +0000 http://mahavamsa.org/?p=466#comment-262 It is about time that this article is re-published on the main Amarasara website. With the treacherous policies of Ranil Wickramasingha government teaching of Sri Lankan history was abandoned in our National schools; this allowed the terrorists and thie intellectual supporters to re-write their version of Sri Lankan history placing claims for the ownership of the Island to Tamil marauders. The end result is a hotch potch of ideas that corrupted the brains and thinking of our younger generations, and of course of the "Colombians" that ape the western ways. This article orginally written by a western traveller and scholar is beneficial to start straigtening the record. I very much urge the editor to consider publishing this item on the main website amongst news items. One point I would like to make however. I understand that Sanskrit was the root language of both Pali and then Sinhala. The article says that Pali was the root of Sanskrit, and I think it is wrong. May be the editor ought to correct this error, otherwise the credibility of the article could be questioned by the one's who is against the main message and just wish to split hair for the sake of it. Kind regards Dhanapala Jayakody It is about time that this article is re-published on the main Amarasara website. With the treacherous policies of Ranil Wickramasingha government teaching of Sri Lankan history was abandoned in our National schools; this allowed the terrorists and thie intellectual supporters to re-write their version of Sri Lankan history placing claims for the ownership of the Island to Tamil marauders. The end result is a hotch potch of ideas that corrupted the brains and thinking of our younger generations, and of course of the “Colombians” that ape the western ways.

This article orginally written by a western traveller and scholar is beneficial to start straigtening the record. I very much urge the editor to consider publishing this item on the main website amongst news items.

One point I would like to make however. I understand that Sanskrit was the root language of both Pali and then Sinhala. The article says that Pali was the root of Sanskrit, and I think it is wrong. May be the editor ought to correct this error, otherwise the credibility of the article could be questioned by the one’s who is against the main message and just wish to split hair for the sake of it.

Kind regards

Dhanapala Jayakody

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