CULTURAL QA 01202427
Q1 Why has Sri Lanka historically never been a part of India
despite its proximity to the Indian sub-continent?
KR Balaji Viswanathan is only a learner of History and not from
the Archaeology dept, who rolling over some aspects as his thought might
carry. As Parkinson says, each unto their level and so one level Quora
might beat around. It is a funny history the learnt will laugh if SRILANKA
was not part of the Indian History. As a matter of fact, Sri Lanka history
is limited as aspired by them from Vikrama singe only But Sri Lanka was
different at different times long ago.
The history of Sri Lanka is unique because the relevance and
richness of it extends beyond the areas of South Asia, Southeast Asia and
the Indian Ocean. The early human remains which were found on the island of
Sri Lanka date back to about 38,000 years ago (Balangoda Man). The
historical period roughly begins in the 3rd century CE, based on Pali
chronicles like the Mahavamsa, the Deepavamsa, and the Culavamsa They
describe the history of Sri Lanka since the arrival of Prince Vijaya The
earliest documents of settlement in the Island are found in these
chronicles. {KR: BUT THIS IS SRI LANKA HISTORY SUITED TO THEM NOW BUT NOT
THAT OF 38000 YEARS} These chronicles cover the period since the
establishment of the Kingdom of Tambapanni in the 6th century BCE (earlier
name of Lanka the river of TN south connected) by the earliest ancestors of
the Sinhalese. The first Sri Lankan ruler of the Anuradhapura Kingdom,
Pandukabhaya, is recorded for the 4th century BCE. Buddhism was introduced
in the 3rd century BCE by Arhath Mahinda (son of the Indian emperor Ashoka).
*Evidence of human colonization in Sri Lanka appears at the site of
Balangoda. Balangoda Man arrived on the island about 125,000 years* ago
and has been identified as Mesolithic hunter-gatherers who lived in caves.
Several of these caves, including the well-known Batadombalena and the Fa
Hien Cave, have yielded many artifacts from these people, who are currently
the first known inhabitants of the island. Balangoda Man probably created
Horton Plains, in the central hills, by burning the trees in order to catch
game. However, the discovery of oats and barley on the plains at about
15,000 BCE suggests that agriculture had already developed at this early
date.
Several minute granite tools (about 4 centimetres in length), earthenware,
remnants of charred timber, and clay burial pots date to the Mesolithic.
Human remains dating to 6000 BCE have been discovered during recent
excavations around a cave at Warana Raja Maha Vihara and in the Kalatuwawa
area. {ITIHASA KATHANDARA A BOOK ON Sri Lanka available in many shops}
Cinnamon is native to Sri Lanka and has been found in Ancient Egypt as
early as 1500 BCE, suggesting early trade between Egypt and the island's
inhabitants. It is possible that Biblical Tarshish was located on the
island. James Emerson Tennent identified Tarshish with Galle.
*The protohistoric Early Iron Age appears to have established
itself in South India by at least as early as 1200 BCE*, if not earlier
(Possehl 1990; Deraniyagala 1992:734). The earliest manifestation of this
in Sri Lanka is radiocarbon-dated to c. 1000–800 BCE at Anuradhapura and
Aligala shelter in Sigiriya (Deraniyagala 1992:709-29; Karunaratne and
Adikari 1994:58; Mogren 1994:39; with the Anuradhapura dating corroborated
by Coningham 1999). It is very likely that further investigations will push
back the Sri Lankan lower boundary to match that of South India.
* During the protohistoric period (1000-500 BCE) Sri Lanka was
culturally united with southern India.,[DR SUDARSAN SENAVIRATNE BOOK*] and
shared the same megalithic burials, pottery, iron technology, farming
techniques and megalithic graffiti.This cultural complex spread from
southern India along with Dravidian clans such as *the Velir,* prior to the
migration of Prakrit Speakers.[VELIR IS A TRIBE IN SOUTH TAMILNADU]
Archaeological evidence for the beginnings of the Iron Age in Sri
Lanka is found at Anuradhapura, where a large city–settlement was founded
before 900 BCE. The settlement was about 15 hectares in 900 BCE, but by 700
BCE it had expanded to 50 hectares. A similar site from the same period has
also been discovered near Aligala in Sigiriya.
The hunter-gatherer people known as the Wanniyala-Aetto or Veddas, who
still live in the central, Uva and north-eastern parts of the island, are
probably direct descendants of the first inhabitants, Balangoda Man. They
may have migrated to the island from the mainland around the time humans
spread from Africa to the Indian subcontinent. Later Indo Aryan migrants
developed a unique hydraulic civilization named Sinhala. Their Achievements
include the construction of the largest reservoirs and dams of the ancient
world as well as enormous pyramid-like stupa (dāgaba in Sinhala)
architecture. This phase of Sri Lankan culture may have seen the
introduction of early Buddhism. Early history recorded in Buddhist
scriptures refers to three visits by the Buddha to the island to see the
Naga Kings, snakes that can take the form of a human at will. The earliest
surviving chronicles from the island, the Dipavamsa and the Mahavamsa, say
that Yakkhas, Nagas, Rakkhas and Devas inhabited the island prior to the
migration of Indo. Have you not heard these names in Ramayana Mahabhartham
and Vedic scriptures?
From the above , what is seen here is that one shall read well
before answering anything as we are not kids; Or must refrain from writing
from their shallow knowledge of the self-esteem. Sri Lanka has a volume of
history tied down to India, South India, and Asia. So please refrain from
where the know how is low.
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Q2 What do you know that most people don’t?
KR First of al one can say honestly, I DO NOT KNOW; but what right
one has to measure others as RHEY DON’T KNOW? Is that not a stupid
measurement of one’s pride exposed as 3 musketeers do here?
I'll tell you a fact which will make you question your intuitive power:
KR Does that kid civil Eng knows what is intuition and how it is
developed? And talks so tall?
If you manage to wrap a cylinder around the Eiffel Tower, the air inside
the cylinder will outweigh the weight of the tower itself!
KR Is that intuition? Or science? How can a cylinder without efiil
will weigh more? Air circulation when filling inside will even blow out the
cylinder. Civil Eng did not study well to explain.
Gustav Eiffel, the man behind the design of the monument, was an absolute
genius.
KR So many Genius are self-esteem do not call themselves as genius;
like a few here; Raja Raja Cholan is a Genius and the Indian civil Eng
without the knowledge about local Genius, is praising outsiders? The design
of the Eiffel Tower is attributed to Maurice Koechlin and Émile Nouguier,
two senior engineers working for the Compagnie des Establishments Eiffel.
The Eiffel Tower's design is actually inspired by the biological structure
of the femur (the human thigh bone).
KR So thigh bone is so slant? How about Cathedrals of England? Thigh
bone stuff?
He was once researching the structure of the femur and realized that the
connection, or the joint, between the femur and hip bone is made up of many
minute fibre like material called the trabaculae, which are woven in a
criss cross pattern. So basically, they involve a lot of air gaps in
between them rather than the actual bone material.
KR That is what I said that RR Cholan is a genius. The Rocks were
glued in a system without cement, followed in so many temple, without
seeing any thigh bone sir.
In layman's terms, there's material only where you need it to be, i.e, only
where the forces are actually acting. Eiffel used this concept in designing
the trusses (the X shaped components of structures) used in the tower
which, if you look more closely, has a lot of holes.
KR Air lifts the weight apart from the trusses. Simple. How the Gopuram
stands on RR temple without support?
This significantly reduces the weight of the structure as you can leave the
rest of the space empty….
KR: Gustav said:” "My tower will be the tallest edifice ever erected by
man. Will it not also be grandiose in its way? And why would something
admirable in Egypt become hideous and ridiculous in Paris?” That means
there was a Giza before astounding; and what Gustav prided Gopalakrishnan
does not. And that is the pity. He says Tirukkural is not necessary and for
got so many structures built in India but C and P which one calls them as
original foolishly.
The femur bone is one of the many naturally nano engineered structures from
which structural engineers derive inspiration. Imagine the amount of steel
which appears to be used in the construction; that still weighs less than
the air surrounding it. This particular branch of structural engineering is
called biomimetics.
KR And I mentioned above the names of the structural Eng which G did
not. Let us know us better first than copying without understanding from
the kids and half-baked thing fools are wiser and wise are fools.
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Q3 What is the funniest joke you've been told that you still
think about to this day?
KR SUJATHA’S SALAVAIKKARI (WASHER WOMAN) JOKE IS BETTER BUT G NEED NOT
KNOW THAT HENCE FROM BSNL
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Q4 What is your best joke about corruption?
KR Any corrupt one finds? But I can say a joke of the Italian court;
no Indian sir. The Judicial system is so perfect the judgement is kept so
secret till last second; and the bench clerk was so honest; so, he will
help both the plaintiff and the defendant treating them equally. Clerk will
take bribe from both promising victory for them; and once the judgement is
announced will return back the money to the lose honestly.
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Q5 Do you know a joke about a father and his son?
KR I know one father and son joke of Jalra but not now.
KR IRS 27124
On Sat, 27 Jan 2024 at 07:27, 'gopala krishnan' via iyer123 <
[email protected]> wrote:
> *CULTURAL QA 01-2024-27*
>
> *All the BELOW QA are from Quora digest to me on 27-01-2024.*
>
> * Quora answers need not be 100% correct answers *
>
> *.Compiled* *and posted by R. Gopala krishnan, on 27-01-2024*
>
>
>
> *Q1 Why has Sri Lanka historically never been a part of India
> despite its proximity to the Indian sub-continent?*
>
> *A1 Dr. Balaji Viswanathan, History buff6y*
>
> *The last king of Sri Lanka, Sri Vikrama Rajasinha of Kandy, was born in
> Madurai and died in Vellore - both in India.** The present Sri Lankan
> flag comes from his dynasty - Nayaks of Kandy -and that dynasty is closely
> related to the Nayaks that ruled Madurai and Thanjavur.*
>
> *That is just one of several examples. For most of its history, Sri Lankan
> dynasties were closely tied to the various Indian dynasties - of Tamil
> Nadu, Odisha and possibly Bengal. The culture of that country is also
> closely tied to India’s.*
>
> *However, being a large island, Sri Lanka also retained a fair amount of
> political autonomy**. In general, islands at the tip of large continents
> - think England at the tip of Europe, Japan at the tip of Eurasia and Sri
> Lanka at the tip of India - have been able to borrow the cultural elements
> of the mainland while still retaining their independence.*
>
> *The reason is that islands of that size are hard to conquer.* *You need
> a large number of ships to bring sufficient troops into the island. This is
> not sustainable. At the heights of Chola empire, their navies could control
> Sri Lanka. But, once the naval power weakened, Sri Lanka once again got
> back its autonomy.*
>
>
>
> *Q2 What do you know that most people don’t?*
>
> *A2 Shalin Sheth,M.S in Civil Engineering & Structural
> Engineering, University of Houston (Graduated 2019)5y*
>
> *I'll tell you a fact which will make you question your intuitive power:*
>
> *If you manage to wrap a cylinder around the Eiffel Tower, the air inside
> the cylinder will outweigh the weight of the tower itself!*
>
> *Gustav Eiffel, the man behind the design of the monument, was an absolute
> genius**. *
>
> *The Eiffel Tower's design is actually inspired by the biological
> structure of the femur (the human thigh bone**). *
>
> *He was once researching the structure of the femur and realized that the
> connection, or the joint, between the femur and hip bone is made up of many
> minute fibre like material called the trabaculae, which are woven in a
> criss cross pattern. So basically, they involve a lot of air gaps in
> between them rather than the actual bone material.*
>
> *In layman's terms, there's material only where you need it to be, i.e,
> only where the forces are actually acting**. Eiffel used this concept in
> designing the trusses (the X shaped components of structures) used in the
> tower which, if you look more closely, has a lot of holes.*
>
> *This significantly reduces the weight of the structure as you can leave
> the rest of the space empty….*
>
> *The femur bone is one of the many naturally nano engineered structures
> from which structural engineers derive inspiration**. Imagine the amount
> of steel which appears to be used in the construction; that still weighs
> less than the air surrounding it. This particular branch of structural
> engineering is called biomimetics.*
>
> *Sources: An interesting fact about the Eiffel Tower*
>
> *Q3 What is the funniest joke you've been told that you still
> think about to this day?*
>
> *A3 Ace Adams, OPD at Walmart (company) (2021–present)Fri*
>
> *A man is driving down the road and breaks down near a monastery**. He
> goes into the monastery and asks the monks if he can stay for the night.
> They graciously accept and shelter him for the night, and even help fix his
> car. As he’s trying to fall asleep, he hears a very strange sound.*
>
> *The next morning, he asks the monks what the sound was, but they say
> “Sorry, we can't tell you, you're not a monk.” He’s disappointed, but he
> thanks them anyway and heads out.*
>
> *Years later, he breaks down in front of the same monastery, and once
> again, the monks take him in for the night. He hears the same strange
> sound, he asks again what it was. They tell him the same thing they told
> him before: “Sorry, we can't tell you, you're not a monk.”*
>
> *At this point, the man says “Alright, I’m dying to know. If the only way
> I can find out is to become a monk, then how do I become a monk?”*
>
> *The monks tell him “You must travel the earth and count every blade of
> grass and every grain of sand there is. Return to us with these numbers,
> and you will be made a monk.”*
>
> *Determined, the man sets off to his task. Decades later, he returns to
> the monastery.*
>
> *He tells the monks “I have traveled the earth and found the information
> you requested. There are 145,236,687,353 blades of grass and
> 246,243,379,574,475,133 grains of sand on the earth.”*
>
> *The monks reply “Congratulations, you are now a monk. We will now lead
> you to the source of the sound.”*
>
> *They lead him to a large, ornate wooden door. The source of the sound is
> right behind this door.*
>
> *He reaches for the handle, only to find it is locked.*
>
> *He says “Very funny. May I have the key?”*
>
> *The monks provide the key, and he opens the door, only to find that
> behind the wooden door is a large, elaborate stone door.*
>
> *He demands the key to this door as well, only to find a** large,
> intricate silver door behind it.*
>
> *Behind the silver door is another door, made of gold. Behind the gold
> door is another door, made of ruby. Behind the ruby door is another door,
> made of sapphire.*
>
> *The process goes on for several more doors, made of** emerald, topaz,
> and amethyst.*
>
> *Finally, the monks tell the man that he has reached the final** door.
> He’s relieved to have finally reached the end.*
>
> *He unlocks the final door, and pulls it open, amazed to finally find the
> source of the strange noise.*
>
> *What was it? Sorry, I can't tell you. You're not a monk.*
>
> *Q4 What is your best joke about corruption?*
>
> *A4 Paul Barends, says things Updated 6y*
>
> *An influential industrialist and his friend, a government minister, are
> at a reception.*
>
> *The industrialist asks his friend: “Can I ask you a favor?”*
>
> * “What can I do for you?” answers the minister and the industrialist
> continues:*
>
> *It’s my youngest kid. He’s 27 now and still hanging around at college.
> Drinking and pranking with his no good buddies. Too lazy to even look for a
> job. Wouldn’t you be able to find something for him? ”*
>
> * “Sure!” answers the minister: “How about I make him assistant-secretary
> with a salary of 10,000 euros per month?”*
>
> *The industrialist: “That’s way too good for him. He has to learn to put
> some effort in it, you see?”*
>
> * “Then how about department head with a monthly pay of 6,000 euros?” says
> the minister.*
>
> * “Still too good. He has to learn to appreciate money. What I want for
> him is to start at the bottom and receive a 1,200 euros wage just like
> everyone else. It has to be the kind of job where you have to work hard to
> prove yourself before you get a raise or a promotion.” the industrialist
> explains.*
>
> * “Sorry!” says the minister: “In that case there is nothing I can do for
> you I’m afraid.”*
>
> *“Why not?” asks the surprised industrialist.*
>
> *“For such jobs you need to pass exams first.” the minister answers.*
>
> *Q5 Do you know a joke about a father and his son?*
>
> *A5 Andras Lu, Jan 20*
>
> *While reading an article last night about fathers and sons, memories came
> flooding back to the time I took my son out for his first beer.*
>
> *Off we went to our local pub only two blocks from home.*
>
> *I got him a Guinness. He didn't like it, so I drank it. Possibly** too
> strong a taste, so I bought him a Worthington's, he didn't like that
> either, so I drank it. Possibly something lighter? I thought he might like
> a local lager. He didn't. I drank it. Something sweeter? He didn't like
> Woodpecker cider. I drank that too.*
>
> *In desperation, I got him a single malt. He totally refused it. What
> could I do but drink it! *
>
> *By the time I realized he just didn't like to drink, I was so flaming
> drunk **I could hardly push his pram **back home.*
>
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