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 Sri Nisargadatta the purpose of spirituality is to know who you are, a viewpoint he expounded in the talks he gave at his humble flat in Khetwadi, Mumbai, where a mezzanine room was created for him to receive disciples and visitors.

According to the original program, Premier Khrushchev expected the millions looking toward the Kremlin this morning to be filled with admiration or rage -- depending upon individual or national politics -- because of the `` bold program for building communism in our time '' which the Congress will adopt.

According to those beliefs events in our current life are consequences of actions taken in previous lives, or Karma.

According to Steven H Silver, alternate history requires three things: 1 ) the story must have a point of divergence from the history of our world prior to the time at which the author is writing, 2 ) a change that would alter history as it is known, and 3 ) an examination of the ramifications of that change.

According to intuitionists ( anti-realists with respect to mathematical objects ), the truth of a mathematical statement consists in our ability to prove it.

According to his disciple Cuthbert, Bede was also doctus in nostris carminibus (" learned in our songs ").

According to the synoptic gospels, Christ generalised the law into two underlying principles ; The first is Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one ; and you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.

According to Julius Caesar, the Belgian tribe of the Atuatuci " was descended from the Cimbri and Teutoni, who, upon their march into our province and Italy, set down such of their stock and stuff as they could not drive or carry with them on the near ( i. e. west ) side of the Rhine, and left six thousand men of their company there with as guard and garrison " ( Gall.

According to this view, Hume's empiricism consisted in the idea that it is our knowledge, and not our ability to conceive, that is restricted to what can be experienced.

According to Hume, we reason inductively by associating constantly conjoined events, and it is the mental act of association that is the basis of our concept of causation.

According to William Loeffler, from The American Book of the Dog ( 1891 ), in the chapter on Dachshunds: " The origin of the Dachshund is in doubt, our best authorities disagreeing as to the beginning of the breed.

According to Margaret Bent, " Renaissance notation is under-prescriptive by our standards ; when translated into modern form it acquires a prescriptive weight that overspecifies and distorts its original openness.

According to Locke, our knowledge of things is a perception of ideas that are in accordance or discordance with each other, which is very different from the quest for certainty of Descartes.

According to an extreme empiricist theory known as Phenomenalism, anticipated by the arguments of both Hume and George Berkeley, a physical object is a kind of construction out of our experiences.

According to quantum mechanics, we can arrange our source so that each emitted pair occupies a quantum state called a spin singlet.

According to Eoin O ' Duffy, an Irish national corporatist, " before everything we must give a national lead to our people ... The first essential is national unity.

According to d ' Eslon, Mesmer understood health as the free flow of the process of life through thousands of channels in our bodies.

According to Paul Williams, " the deep-rooted misconception concerning an unfailing, ubiquitous fierce criticism of the Lesser Vehicle by the is not supported by our texts.

According to Cooley, the reply was that " money means nothing to us ; our lives mean nothing to us.

According to Factory's co-founder Tony Wilson, " All our bands are free to fuck off whenever they please.

According to Sony Pictures, " The objective for our Anonymous program, as stated in the classroom literature, is ' to encourage critical thinking by challenging students to examine the theories about the authorship of Shakespeare's works and to formulate their own opinions.

In 1741, during the attack that led to Walpole's downfall, Samuel Sandys declared that " According to our Constitution we can have no sole and prime minister.

According to Margaret Bent ( 1998 ), " Renaissance notation is under-prescriptive by our standards ; when translated into modern form it acquires a prescriptive weight that overspecifies and distorts its original openness.

According to my investigation, there are sixty-two main theories which underlie the thousands of philosophies and religions current in our world.

According to Beathard, Hayes and Haynes " changed our whole game plan.