LankaWeb – Historical context of politicisation of Mahavamsa, and Tamil translation of the last volume

by Chandre Dharmawardana Courtesy The Island The sixth volume of the Mahavamsa, covering the period 1978-2010 has been rendered into Tamil by N. Saravanan, a well-known Tamil journalist and activist based in Norway. The first three volumes of the Mahavamsa (including the Culavamsa) are now a part of the UNESCO world heritage. They were the work of individual scholar monks, […]