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Message: <blockquote data-quote="truth100%" data-source="post: 6681151" data-attributes="member: 261472">According to local legend, the Sinhalese are descended from the exiled Prince <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vijaya" target="_blank">Vijaya</a> and his party of several hundred who arrived on the island between 543 and 483 BC[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" target="_blank">citation needed</a>]. These people arrived in Sri Lanka after being exiled from the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sinhapura&action=edit&redlink=1" target="_blank">Sinhapura</a> kingdom in north west India. The origin legend and early recorded history of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism" target="_blank">Buddhist</a> Sinhalese is chronicled in two historic documents, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahavamsa" target="_blank">Mahavamsa</a>, written in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C4%81li" target="_blank">Pāli</a> around the 4th century BC, and the much later <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chulavamsa" target="_blank">Chulavamsa</a> (probably penned in the 13 century CE by the Buddhist monk Dhammakitti). These are ancient sources which cover the histories of the powerful ancient kingdoms of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anuradhapura" target="_blank">Anuradhapura</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polonnaruwa" target="_blank">Polonnaruwa</a>. The Mahavansa describes the existence of fields of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice" target="_blank">rice</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reservoirs" target="_blank">reservoirs</a>, indicating a well developed <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agrarian_society" target="_blank">agrarian society</a>. The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oral_tradition" target="_blank">oral tradition</a> of the Sinhalese people also speaks of many royal dynasties prior to the Sinha royal dynasty: Manu, Tharaka, Mahabali, Raavana, etc. The Sinhalese have spread to other countries like the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maldives" target="_blank">Maldives</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauritius" target="_blank">Mauritius</a>.</blockquote>

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