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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Randir" data-source="post: 8143481" data-attributes="member: 3497">According to the Mahavamsa, Vijaya's grandparents hailed from the Kingdoms of Kalinga and Vanga, the present-day Indian states of Orissa and West Bengal as well as parts of Bangladesh respectively. At the beginning of the chronicle (see History of Sri Lanka) the King of Vanga is married to the daughter of the King of Kalinga. Their daughter, Suppadevi, was not only 'very fair and very amorous', but was also prophesied to consummate a 'union with the King of beasts'[1] - in the Mahavamsa, a lion. When this duly happened, she gave birth to two children - Sinhabahu and Sinhasivali. 'Sinhabahu' means 'lion-armed' and the young prince himself is described as having 'hands and feet...formed like a lion's'. [1] The family lived together in the lion's cave, blocked in by a large rock the lion had placed to prevent their exit. Eventually, however, Suppadevi and her two children flee the cave. Later Sinhabahu kills his father with an arrow. Then, marrying his sister, he establishes a kingdom based on a city called Sinhapura. Sinhasivali bears him a series of twins; their eldest child is named Vijaya, and his younger twin brother Sumitta.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vijaya_of_Sri_Lanka" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vijaya_of_Sri_Lanka</a></blockquote>

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