" I did not find that reading the Mahavamsa enhances my self-esteem as a Sinhalese. On the contrary I feel greatly embarassed and deeply humiliated when I learn that we the Sinhalese are the descendants of Vijaya, the banished profligate son of an incestrous marriage between Sihabahu and his sister Sihasivali whose mother was so exceedingly lustful that only a real lion could satisfy her sexually. Moreover Sihabahu killed his leonine father, the king of the brutes. Thus, according to the Mahavamsa, brutishness, bestiality, incest, patricide, and profligasy, were the stuff of our genesis. Of the 54 rulers recounted in the Mahavamsa, 22 were murdered by their successors; 11 were overthrown; 13 were killed in battle, and 6 were assasinated"
The above qoute was penned by Prof. Carlo Fonseka (The Island, October 22, 2010)
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