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Updated: May 25, 2025
After this he embarked in a large merchant-vessel, and went floating over the sea to the southwest. It was the beginning of winter, and the wind was favorable; and, after fourteen days, sailing day and night, they came to the country of Singhala. The people said that it was distant from Tâmaliptî about seven hundred yojanas.
"The Kingdom of the Lion," Ceylon. Singhala was the name of a merchant adventurer from India, to whom the founding of the kingdom was ascribed. His father was named Singha, "the Lion," which became the name of the country; Singhala, or Singha-Kingdom, "the Country of the Lion." Called the mani pearl or bead. Mani is explained as meaning "free from stain," "bright and growing purer."
According to other accounts Singhala was originally occupied by Rakshasas or Rakshas, "demons who devour men," and "beings to be feared," monstrous cannibals or anthropophagi, the terror of the shipwrecked mariner. His dragons or nagas have come before us again and again. That Sakyamuni ever visited Ceylon is to me more than doubtful.
It was the beginning of winter, and the wind was favourable; and, after fourteen days, sailing day and night, they came to the country of Singhala. The kingdom is on a large island, extending from east to west fifty yojanas, and from north to south thirty.
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