This is the second part of the series of posts about the legendary  sri lankan emperor  "Ravana" .According to sri lankan folk stories Sita was Ravanas own daughter.Can you believe that?Well,lets see what is that story first. When Ravans queen,Mandodari was pregnant,one of the ministers got to know a future prediction,which says If the child born before a specific time(nakatha) he or she will bring prosperity to the kingdom and kind,otherwise he or she will bring bad luck to the king.They were panicked and annoyed because of this future prediction,and a baby boy born before that specific time.King was so happy and while he went to do some religious rituals,queen gave birth to a second child,that was a baby girl and that is after that specific time.So the ministers decided to hide this from king and throw the baby girl away.So they put her in a boat and throw it into sea.That is how she went to India. And let me tell you something about the Agni pareeksha too.In southern ...

Everybody in Sri Lanka and India know about Ravana through ramayan,right?But is the story in Ramayana true?Does it hide anything from us?Well Ramayana is the story from Indian side,How many of you know about that story from Sri lankan side? The information in this series of posts are gathered from several books,tv programs and magazines,and some are Sri Lankan folklores.and i visited  most of the places mentioned in these posts.So are you ready to start a journey to few thousands of years back...Here you go.... Ravana aka Dasis Ravana was a king (I'd like to say an emperor) lived in Sri Lanka(at that time it was helanka) about 7500 years ago.The meaning of " Dasis "is ten areas,many people misunderstand this as ten heads,but it is wrong.According to many sources king Ravana ruled a part of India,a part of China,North east Asia and several other countries. King Ravana had a good knowledge about medicines,and he was a very intelligent person,and Ravana and sri lankan ...