Wikipedia Trail: From Sri Lanka to Kuveni



We've read about Lanka quite a bit recently, so I decided to look a little bit more into Sri Lanka, which is supposedly one and the same as appears in the Ramayana, and the bridge of islands fits the tales. It turns out, that Sri Lanka has had many names in its history. This led me to find that the first is the name of the first kingdom to exist in Sri lanka: Tambapanni, which means "copper-red earth." It was apparently once inhabited entirely by she demons called Yakkhinis. And I found that Prince Vijaya made Tambapanni his kingdom after landing on the beaches on the day of Buddha's death. Vijaya tied threds around the wrists of his followers for protection, which eventually led Kuveni, one of the she-demons, to become his consort, since she could not kill his men. That seems a little odd to me, but whatever. She had been the queen of the Yakkhas. He eventually makes her leave the island, after using her to kill all her sisters. Vijaya sounds like he was a complete jerk.

Basically, I followed a brief historical tale of how the original, non-demonic kingdom in Sri Lanka was founded.

Map of ancient Lanka

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