According to the Mahavamsa, the Sinhalese are descended from the exiled Prince Vijaya and his party of seven hundred followers who arrived on the island in 543 BCE.

According to the genesis chronicle of the majority Sinhala people, the Mahavamsa (" Great Chronicle "), written in 5th century CE, the Pulindas believed to refer to Veddas are descended from Prince Vijaya ( 6th-5th century BC ), the founding father of the Sinhalese nation, through Kuveni, a woman of the indigenous Yakkha clan whom he had espoused.

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 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 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 the Buddhist scripture Mahavamsa, the presence of Brahmins have been recorded in Sri Lanka as early as 500BC when the first migrations from the Indian mainland supposedly took place.

According to the chronicle Mahavamsa, the first settlers were Prince Vijaya and his entourage.

According to the Mahavamsa, the Ruwanwelisaya | Great Stupa in Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka, was dedicated by a 30, 000-strong " Yona " delegation from " Alexandria of the Caucasus | Alexandria " around 130 BCE.

According to the Mahavamsa – a historical poem written in the Pali language, of the kings of Sri Lanka – King Vijaya ( 543 – 505 BC ) married a Pandyan Princess.

According to the Mahavamsa, the Ruwanwelisaya | Great Stupa in Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka, was dedicated by a 30, 000-strong " Yona " delegation from " Alexandria of the Caucasus | Alexandria " around 130 BCE.

According to the Mahavamsa, the Ruwanwelisaya | Great Stupa in Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka, was dedicated by a 30, 000-strong " Yona " delegation from " Alexandria of the Caucasus | Alexandria " around 130 BCE.

According to the Mahavamsa, the Mahavihara was destroyed during sectarian conflicts with the Theravada monks of the Abhayagiri Vihara during the 4th century.

According to the chronicles as Mahavamsa the entire complex was built by King Kashyapa ( 477 – 495 CE ), and after the king's death, it was used as a Buddhist monastery until 14th century.

According to the Mahavamsa, ' He ( Veediya Bandara ), went and stopped at the Seven Korale.

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

According to Mahavamsa, on the death of Sihabahu of Sinhapura ( Lala Rattha

According to the Mahavamsa, a Pali Chronicle of the fifth century Ceylon, the Emperor Asoka sent two Buddhist Monks, Sona and Uttara, to Suvannabhumi.

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 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 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 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 Hindu mythology, goddess of prosperity and wife of Lord Vishnu, Maha Laxmi also witnessed the whole incident, as she was also present in the Dham at that time.

According to these texts, Jagannath is Maha Bhairav, and Goddess Vimala is the Shakti.

According to officials with the Religious Affairs Department and the Maha Brahma Foundation, it was made of plaster, mixed with a mixture of gold, bronze and other precious metals, along with pieces of the old statue.

According to the Chiang Mai Chronicles Pra Chao Maha Proma attempted to usurp the throne at Chiang Mai upon the death of his brother Pra Nue Na but failed and withdrew to the protection of the king of Ayutthaya.

According to this floppy disk, Benoit Rojak, the leader of the new Metatron reinforcements, has been given secret orders to assassinate Affranchi after Maha has been eliminated.

According to the Theravāda teacher Bhikkhu Bodhi the bodhisattva path was not taught by Buddha.

According to the Tathagatagarbha sutras, failure to recognize the Buddha's eternity and, even worse, outright denial of that eternity, is deemed a major obstacle to the attainment of complete awakening ( Bodhi ).

According to Buddhist mythology, if no Bodhi tree grows at the site, the ground around the Bodhi tree is devoid of all plants for a distance of one royal karīsa and nothing can travel in the air immediately above it, not even Sakka.

According to legend, in the case of Gautama Buddha, a Bodhi tree sprang up on the day he was born.

According to Bhikkhu Bodhi, the post-canonical Pali commentary uses the three terms viññāa, mano and citta as synonyms for the mind sense base ( mana-ayatana ); however, in the Sutta Pitaka, these three terms are generally contextualized differently: