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I have fixed your indents again. You haven't really addressed the problem, as neither tamilnet nor
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I've re-read Bandu De Silva 'roasting', Its frankly embarrassing. He is denying the clear overwhelming evidence of a early iron age
Dravidian substratum in Sri Lanka, which recent unbiased Sinhalese scholars such as Sudharshan Seneviratne have uncovered. A good summary of those findings can be found
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Da Silva is not a historian but a diplomat, and is an unreliable, heavily biased source. He even makes a crazy claim that the
Koneswaram Kovil, which we have huge evidence for in inscriptions and literature, was actually a Buddhist temple. Really his words can not be taken seriously. Certainly not
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No not all presently scholars identify this as brahmi inscription. Some identify this as Tamil Brahmi inscription. You first read the article you mentioned, out of 5 scholars, 3 identify it as Tamil brahmi. So your statement is not correct that presently scholars identify this as brahmi not Tamil
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Indrapala's change of heart, if indeed it is a change of heart. We don't usually get to pick and choose in these
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Zionists and those Jews who are opposed to it. -
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