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The Rāmāyaṇa A Version of Rāma's Story from Ceylon

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2011

C. E. Godakumbura
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A Version of the story of Sītā is related during the performance of the “Kohoābā Yakkama” or the “Kohoābā Kankāriya”, popularly called “Kankāriya”, one of the most interesting of ceremonies extant among the Sinhalese. The rite is supposed to have been first performed during the reign of Pṇḍduvāsadeva, the second Sinhalese king of Ceylon (circa fifth century B.C.).

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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , Volume 78 , Issue 1-2 , January 1946 , pp. 14 - 22
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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1946

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Page 14 note 1 The earliest literary accounts of the cult do not date back further than the fifteenth century a.d. The ceremony itself appears to be of South Indian origin and from the geographical names in the texts one might identify Malaya with the Malabar country. The writer has prepared a full account of the Kohombā Yakkama, with texts, and it will appear in a subsequent number of this journal.