We Reveal For You To Revel

To end your search for ultimate holiday destination visit the "Land of Delights" , Sri Lanka & get overwhelmed with Sri Lanka holidays bounty of tourist attractions. Enjoy "Total Holiday Experience" while you are being pampered by world class eco-chic resorts & hotels.

"The Island of Sri Lanka is a small universe containing as many variations of culture, scenery and climate as some countries a dozen times her size.. Every point on the island can be reached with just a few hours travel by car, enabling even the short-term visitor to experience many of island's diversities." Arthur C. Clarke

Warmest greetings from The Land of Delights, Sri Lanka to all Ladies & Gentlemen, Guys & Babes! And to kids too. Hi, partner.
Right Stuff in the left hand side are mainly imports. Right stuff on the right hand side are mainly exports. No sexports. This is a family show free of charge
Enjoy life. Be good too.
In the center is my two pennies worth.
Of course, you may comment.
By the way, I cannot sideline American Ellen, she has taken the center stage limelight.
We reveal for you to revel. Cheers!!!!!!!
bunpeiris
B. Upul N. Peiris, Moratuwa, Sri Lanka

“Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.” Gauthama Buddha

"It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it."
Sherlock Holmes to Dr. Watson : The Hound of Baskervilles

Moral courage is not merely a virtue; it is the virtue. Without it there are no other virtues. All other virtues do not become virtues unless it takes moral courage to exercise them. **** I have never met a man with moral courage who wouldn't,when it was really necessary, face bodily danger. Moral courage is a higher & rarer virtue than physical courage. Read more on courage at Sri Lanka Holidays.

General Sir William Slim, former Commander-in-chief, Allied Land Forces in South-East Asia

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
Socrates

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage"
Anais Nin

"Fanaticism has nothing to do with Courage." bunpeiris

We commemorate Robert Fulgham at Sri Lanka Holidays.
Share everything
Play fair.
Don't hit people.
Put things back where you found them.
Clean up your own mess.
Don't take things that aren't yours.
Say sorry when you hurt somebody.
Wash your hands before you eat.
Flush.
Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you.
Live a balanced life.

And then follows no other community but the Useful Idiots: so called intellectuals, as Lenin himself was quick to recognize the invaluable use of those. Oh! Yes, it is truth, but nothing but absolute truth: the minority has been suffering for a long time, It is high noon the majority redress the grievances of the ethnic minority. The strong man with a dagger is followed by the weak man with the sponge, quipped lord Acton. Until the boy who yelled, “ The King is naked” emerge once again from the madness, wilderness, melee & chaos, there is no escape. Waiting for the boyot. In the year 1995, State Department awarded USD 500,00 contract to a Yale University genocide research, head by Ben Kiernan, a professor well known-even self confesses-as an early apologist for the Pot Pot regime. An academic battle triggered when Harvard Research associate Stephen Morris attacked Kieran in the Wall Street Journal. Under the headline “ The wrong man to investigate Cambodia, Morris called his fellow Australian “radical activist-cum-academic known as one of the Khmer Rouge’s most ardent defenders during Pol Pot’s reign of terror….who spoke tirelessly against most refugee accounts & Western reporting.” Kiernren’s supported countered that Kiernen’s subsequent “ mature’ work far outweighed what one called "juvenilla" Kiernan then weighed in himself, explaining that in 19179 he had penned a “frank admission” that he had been “late” in assessing the Cambodian tragedy. He was late by 2 million lives of human beings. They were killed like flies. So much for the intellectuals & academics. What was the value of life of Kiernan to his parents? What is the value of his son’s life to Kiernan? What is the value of 2 millions human beings? The average man, the man in the street has miserably failed to make out the endless idiocy of the pundictocarcy: perceive how extreme is the mental imbecility of the so-called intellectuals & academics.

What’s with this sudden choice of disorders we get right now? When I was a kid, we just had crazy people, that’s it, just crazy people.
Ellen Degeneres

"I’m so dazzled by the richness of the world that I think fiction is not quite catching it." V. S. Naipaul
Not quite, Sir Vidya, not quite.
"Russian women are the most talented & beautiful in the World"
Russian president Vladimir Putin at Sardinia by the side of good old Silvio in April 2008
No doubt, Mr. President, no doubt indeed.

The inhabitants of Jaffna in the year 1803
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The inhabitants of Jaffna consist of a collection of various races. The greatest number are of Moorish extraction, & are divided into several tribes, known by the names of Lubabalis, Mopleys, Chittys, & Choliars; they are distinguished by wearing a little round cap on their close shaven heads. There is also a race of Malabars found here somewhat differing in their appearance from those on the continent. These different tribes of foreign settlers greatly exceed in number the native Ceylonese in the district of Jaffna.

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Above is an extract from "An Account of The Island of Ceylon" by Robert Percival Esq. of "His Majesty's 19th Regiment of Foot" Published in London, Great Britain in the year 1803
AES reprint ISBN 81-206-0563-2

Tamil district of Jafanapatam, Sri Lanka in the year 1505
QUOTE Page 4
Turning to Ceilao, the chief King & Kingdom there were those of Cotta; this King the others reverenced with the respect of due to an Emperor.
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Quote footnote in the same page
The king who ruled at Kotte was the Suzerain of the entire country. Tributary Kings ruled over the Tamil district of Jafanapatam in the North, & the Kanda Uda Rata in the centre.
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Above is an extract from "The historic Tragedy of the island of Ceilao" by Captain Joao Ribeiro, Lisbon, Portugal, 8th January 1685.
Translated from Portuguese by Dr. PAUL E. PIERIS, Colombo, Sri Lanka in the year 1947
AES reprint ISBN 81-206-1334-1
You will not be touring in Jaffna with Sri Lanka Holidays.

"India must conquer the world & nothing else is my ideal. Our eternal policy must be the preaching of Shastras to the nations of the world. One of the reasons for India's downfall was that she narrowed herself, went into a shell, as the oyster does & refused to give her treasures & jewels to the other races of mankind, refused to give the life giving truths to the thirsting nations outside the Aryan fold."
Swami Vivekananda

"They are not the enemy. Ignorance i s the enemy. The gwei-lo just don't know us Chinese. Our race has been closed for so long, outsiders have never seen the beauty of our culture. They don't know how to emulate the beauty of a crane or the ferocity of a tiger. I say let's show it to them"
Bruce Lee: Dragon ISBN 0 7515 0697 4

I wish they don't forget to keep those treasures pure which they have in excellence over the west: their artistic building of life, the simplicity and modesty in personal need, and the pureness and calmness of Japanese soul.
Albert E. Referring to the Japanese people.
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Baby, Sweetheart, would I lie to you?
Amicule, deliciae, num is sum qui mentiar tibi?

Tell me lies, sweet little lies.

There are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third which neither comprehends by itself nor by the showing of others; the first is the most excellent, the second is good, and the third is useless.
Niccolo Machiavelli

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Nelson Mandela

You must rise or you must fail. You must rule & win, or serve & lose, you must suffer or triumph, you must be anvil or hammer.
Goethe

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is a habit.
Socrates

Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
The Art of War

I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.
Bruce Lee

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
Winston Churchill

To believe in something, and not live it, is dishonest.
Mohandas Gandhi

The growing interest in Buddhism led to a great deal of literary activity. At the beginning of this period, or perhaps earlier, many commentaries on the Pali Cannon were written in Sinhalese. the chief of them was the Maha Atthakatha of the Mahavihara. But these commentaries do not exist any longer, & we cannot be sure of their date or their exact contents. The earliest Pali work of this period is Dipavasa, a compilation of ballads & verses dealing with the introduction of Buddhism into Sri Lanka & the history of Sri Lanka up to King Mahasen. The study of Pali &the use of it for writing of books became more common with the arrival of Buddhaghosa from India in the reign of Mahanama (A.D.409- 431). He is the author of the Visuddhi Magga (The Path to Purity), in which he gives a restatement of Buddhist doctrine. He is also said to have translated the Sinhalese commentaries on the cannonical works into Pali language. his works had a profound influence on later Buddhism, & his methods of exposition of the scriptures were followed in later times even in Burma.
The most important Pali work of this period is the Mahavamsa, written about the sixth century A.D. It covers the same ground as the Dipavansa, but gives much more matter,borrowed from the Atthakatha. It is an epic & work of art, & shows the influence of Sanskrit both in language & style. The Mahavihara was one of the two works that most influenced later Pali & Sinhalese literature. The other was the Jataka, with its introduction, the Nidana Katha. The Mahabodivansa, which shows the influence of these two works, also appeared before the end of this period.
Literary activity in Sinhalese was much less. In the time of King Buddadasa, at the end of the fourth century, some sections of the Pali Cannon were translated into Sinhalese. In the time of King Agbo 1 (A.D.568-601) it is said that there were twelve Sinhalese poets. Before the end of this period a Sinhalese glossary to the Dhammapada Atthakatha was written. This work still exists, & is called the Dampiya Atuva Gatapada.
the form of the Sinhalese language in the early centuries of the Christian era was not so different from other Indian Aryan dialects as now, but at the beginning of this period Sinhalese began to take a distinctive form. the script, too, went through a change about the same time, bu it began to take on its modern rounded form only at the end of this period, when the language, too, began to strongly influenced by Pali & Sanskrit forms.

North India
In the Ancient period the country that influence Sri Lanka most was India. Sri Lanka was in touch with almost all parts of it, & its influence on Sri Lanka in matters of religion, in sculpture & painting have already been mentioned. After the break-up of the Maurya Empire, India was divided into a number of independent states which often wage war against one another. In the fourth century A.D., Samudragupta brought almost the whole of North India under his rule, & ushered in an era of peace & prosperity. his supremacy was generally recognised all over India, & he claimed to have received the homage of the Sinhalese. Kit Siri Mevan sent him an embassy with gifts, to obtain permission for the building of a monastery at Buddha gaya for the use of Sinhalese pilgrims.
During the rule of Samudragupta & his successors, India was the leading power in the East. It had dealings with the Persian, Roman & Chinese emperors. Chinese pilgrims, such as Fa-Hsien & Hiuen Tsiang, visited India, & Indian sages, like Kumarajiva, went to China. It was also in this period that Farther India & Java came fuly under Buddhist influence.
This was also a period of Hindu renaissance. The Gupta kings were worshippers of Vishnu, though they allowed complete freedom of worship to Buddhists & Jains. They encouraged literature, science, architecture, sculpture & painting. Sanskrit became the language of the learned. The Indian epics, the Mahabharata & the Ramayana, & other Sanskrit works, such as the Laws of Manu & Kautilya's Arthasastra,took their final form at this time. Kalidasa wrote his dramas & poems, which later influenced Sinhalese literature. It was also about this time that Kumaradasa wrote the Sanskrit poem Janakiharana, or the abduction of Sita, which became popular among scholars in Ceylon. The sculpture, which exhibited extraordinary beauty of figure, dignity of pose, & restraint of treatment in detail, & the paintings, such as the frescoes of Ajanta, reached an extraodinarily high standard of excellence. The influence of India was so extensive that many Asiatic countries looked to it at his time for the sources of their inspiration.
Above is an extract from The Early History of Ceylon by G.C. Mendis, 1932

Sri Lanka Holidays mince no words. "FIDES" is often (and wrongly) translated 'faith', but it has nothing to do with the word as used by Christians writing in Latin about the Christian virute (St. Paul Letter to the Corinthians, chapter 13). For the Romans, FIDES was an essential element in the character of a man of public affairs, and a necessary constituent element of all social and political transactions (perhaps = 'good faith'). FIDES meant 'reliablilty', a sense of trust between two parties if a relationship between them was to exist. FIDES was always reciprocal and mutual, and implied both privileges and responsibilities on both sides. In both public and private life the violation of FIDES was considered a serious matter, with both legal and religious consequences. FIDES, in fact, was one of the first of the 'virtues' to be considered an actual divinity at Rome. The Romans had a saying, "Punica fides" (the reliability of a Carthaginian) which for them represented the highest degree of treachery: the word of a Carthaginian (like Hannibal) was not to be trusted, nor could a Carthaginian be relied on to maintain his political relationships. Sri Lanka Holidays reveal bare facts sans nonsense.