According to the Sri Lankan Military these militias were formed after " massacres done by the LTTE " and in the early 1990s they were reformed as the Sri Lankan Home Guard.

According to the LTTE's then head of police, the force was to be assigned to tasks such as rehabilitation, construction, forest conservation and agriculture, but would also be used to battle the Sri Lankan military if the need arose.

According to the Mahāvamsa, a chronicle written in Pāli language, the ancient period of Sri Lanka begins in 543 BC with the landing of Vijaya, a semi-legendary king sailed 860 nautical miles on eight ships to Sri Lanka with 700 followers from the southwest coast of what is now the Rarh region of West Bengal.

According to the Hindu mythology, a land bridge existed between the Indian mainland and Sri Lanka.

According to legend they are the descendants of the exiled Prince Vijaya who arrived from North-East India to Sri Lanka in 543 BCE.

According to a 2008 Gallup poll, 99 % of Sri Lankans considered religion an important aspect of their daily lives.

According to Article I of the " Rehat Maryada " ( the Sikh code of conduct and conventions ), a Sikh is defined as " any human being who faithfully believes in One Immortal Being ; ten Gurus, from Guru Nanak Dev to Sri Guru Gobind Singh ; Sri Guru Granth Sahib ; the teachings of the ten Gurus and the baptism bequeathed by the tenth Guru ; and who does not owe allegiance to any other religion ".

According to Mahavamsa, the Vanga prince Vijaya Singha conquered Lanka ( modern day Sri Lanka ) in 544 BC and gave the name " Sinhala " to the country.

According to some theories, he was a historical emperor who reigned over Sri Lanka from 2554 BC to 2517 BC.

According to Tan Sri Rafidah Aziz, former Minister of Trade and Industry, the policy was to create " Towering Malays ".

* According to an ancient Sri Lankan source, the Mahavamsa, Greek monks seem to have been active proselytizers of Buddhism during the time of Menander: the Yona ( Greek ) Mahadhammarakkhita () is said to have come from " Alasandra " ( thought to be Alexandria of the Caucasus, the city founded by Alexander the Great, near today ’ s Kabul ) with 30, 000 monks for the foundation ceremony of the Maha Thupa (" Great stupa ") at Anuradhapura in Sri Lanka, during the 2nd century BC:

According to local lore, it was cast in Ceylon ( now Sri Lanka ) sometime between the 1st and 9th century.

According to the chronicle, when Dutthagamani of Sri Lanka ( 101-77 BC ) was born, many items of value were said to have appeared spontaneously, which were found and brought in by various people as gifts to the newborn.

According to his followers, Sri Chinmoy wrote 1, 500 books, 115, 000 poems and 20, 000 songs, created 200, 000 paintings and gave almost 800 free peace concerts in notable venues around the world.

According to the Mahavamsa, the Sri Maha Bodhi in Sri Lanka was planted in 288 BC, making it the oldest verified specimen of any angiosperm.

According to the Mahavamsa, branches from the Bodhi trees of all the Buddhas born during this kalpa were planted in Ceylon ( Sri Lanka ) on the spot where the sacred Bodhi tree stands today in Anurādhapura.

According to local tradition, it was known Sri Nakorn Lamduan (.

According to the plates and pillars left by Aśoka ( the edicts of Aśoka ), emissaries were sent to various countries in order to spread Buddhism, as far south as Sri Lanka and as far west as the Greek kingdoms, in particular the neighboring Greco-Bactrian Kingdom, and possibly even farther to the Mediterranean.

According to another Hindu legend, Lord Hanuman dropped a piece of earth as he was carrying a mountain with his life-saving herb, Mrita Sanjivani, from the Himalayas to Lanka ( Sri Lanka ) during the Rama-Ravana war.

According to the historical record available today, it is believed that several instruments originated within the tribal groups that once inhabited the island presently known as Sri Lanka.

According to Shri Aurobindo, the vedic imagery are deeper than mere imagery.

According to Aurobindo ( The Secret of the Veda ), RV 5. 14. 4 is a key for understanding the character of the Dasyus:

Sethna ( 1992 ) writes: " According to Aurobindo ,(...) there are passages in which the spiritual interpretation of the Dasas, Dasyus and Panis is the sole one possible and all others are completely excluded.

According to Aurobindo, " The supramental transformation is the final stage in the integral yoga, enabling the birth of a new individual fully formed by the supramental power.

According to Satprem ( see note to " On Pavitra and Pavitra's Death "), Pavitra left some very interesting memoirs of his conversations with Sri Aurobindo and Mother in 1925 and 1926, large parts of which were destroyed ( almost a third of Pavitra's notebooks ) by his closest collaborator, with the pretext that it would be " better left unsaid ".

According to Bruce L. Olsen, director of public affairs for the church, " The logo re-emphasizes the official name of the church and the central position of the Savior in its theology.

According to the central dogma of molecular biology, when synthesizing a protein, a gene's DNA is transcribed into mRNA which is then translated into protein.

According to Ford ’ s The Modern Theologians, “ Mary Daly has done more than anyone to clarify the problems women have concerning the central core symbolism of Chrisianity, and its effects on their self-understanding and their relationship to God .”

According to the book, drinking is a central focus on Mars, where water is scarce.

According to Lovecraft there is a copy of the Necronomicon here, but the University of Buenos Aires never had a central library.

According to Hezbollah's Deputy-General, Na ' im Qasim, the struggle against Israel is a core belief of Hezbollah and the central rationale of Hezbollah's existence.

According to the 2004 Moldovan Census, 3, 383, 332 people lived in the areas controlled by the central government of Moldova.

According to a New York Times article from Feb. 1, 1893, Smith allegedly: " picked up little Myrtle Vance ... near her father's residence, and ... carried her through the central portion of the city ... En route through the city he was asked by several persons what he was doing with the child.

According to Vasari, antique art was central to the rebirth of Italian art.

According to Herbert C. Brichtothe, writing in Reform Judaism's Hebrew Union College Annual, the family tomb is the central concept in understanding biblical views of the afterlife.

According to Gould, punctuated equilibrium revised a key pillar " in the central logic of Darwinian theory ".

According to the Continued Biographies of Eminent Monks ( 645 ) by Daoxuan, Shaolin Monastery was built on the north side of Shaoshi, the central peak of Mount Song, one of the Sacred Mountains of China, by Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty in 477.

According to Jesse Stommel of Bright Lights Film Journal, the lack of explicit violence in the film forces viewers to question their own fascination with violence that they play a central role in imagining.

According to Adorno's translator Robert Hullot-Kentor, the central motive of Adorno's work thus consists in determining " how life could be more than the struggle for self-preservation.

According to Derrida, Sartre's interpretation of Dasein and other key Heideggerian concerns is overly psychologistic, anthropocentric, and misses the historicality central to Dasein in Being and Time.

According to Schultes ' and Anderson's descriptions, C. sativa is tall and laxly branched with relatively narrow leaflets, C. indica is shorter, conical in shape, and has relatively wide leaflets, and C. ruderalis is short, branchless, and grows wild in central Asia.

According to the researchers, three " wires " converge on a central " island " which can house one or two electrons.

According to Mackenzie's theory, the Persians ( or Proto-Persians ) occupied the province of Fars in the southwest ( proceeding from the assumption that the Achaemenids spoke Persian ), the Baluchis ( Proto-Baluchis ) inhabited the central areas of Western Iran, and the Kurds ( Proto-Kurds ), in the wording of G. Windfuhr ( 1975: 459 ), lived either in northwestern Luristan or in the province of Isfahan.

According to an article on The New York Times, the way in which the present mayor of Thessaloniki is treating the city's debt and oversized administration problems could be used as a paradigm by Greece's central government for a successful strategy in dealing with these problems.

According to Chinese legend, the Zhou lineage began with Emperor Ku and proceeded from him to Qi, Buku, Ju, and then Gongliu, before Gugong Danfu moved the Zhou clan from Bin ( 豳 or 邠 ) to an area in the Wei River valley, where they founded a town that became central to the Zhou clan's growing prosperity.

" According to actress Olivia de Havilland, " she mother was the central character.

According to the authors, the " next industrial revolution " depends on the espousal of four central strategies: " the conservation of resources through more effective manufacturing processes, the reuse of materials as found in natural systems, a change in values from quantity to quality, and investing in natural capital, or restoring and sustaining natural resources ".

According to the authors, the " next industrial revolution " depends on the espousal of four central strategies: " the conservation of resources through more effective manufacturing processes, the reuse of materials as found in natural systems, a change in values from quantity to quality, and investing in natural capital, or restoring and sustaining natural resources.

b ) According to the Bibliotheca Epitome and Proclus in " Ilion's Conquest ", Menelaus raised his sword in front of the temple of Minerva in the central square of Troy to kill her but his wrath went away when he saw her tearing her clothes to reveal her breasts.

According to Zohary and Hopf, " A difficulty in the identification of its wild progenitor is the sterility of the cultivars ", though it is thought to be descendent from the species Allium longicuspis, which grows wild in central and southwestern Asia.