While Nepal is preparing archeological studies to prove its claim on Lord Rama and Ayodhya, Sri Lanka is now beginning to discover its heritage associated with Ravana. Sri Lanka’s Civil Aviation Authority has said that it will conduct a research on the mythological character Ravana and the air route used by him.
In an advertisement published in Sinhala language, the Aviation Authority of Sri Lanka has asked people to provide any kind of documents or literary evidence about King Ravana and the now-lost ancient airways.
An aviation official told that this research is being done to gather an official information about King Ravana as there are all kinds of stories about Ravana. The official said that stories have been going on for many years about the aircraft of Ravana and the routes used by them, so we want to study this matter.
The tourism sector of Sri Lanka is also encouraging the Ramayana Trail for tourists coming from India. However, the villains of the Ramayana of India see Ravana through the eyes of Singhal-Buddhist faith. In Sri Lanka, Ravana is seen as a brave and learned king of the country.
A group of Sinhala-Buddhists call themselves Ravana Balya, while Sri Lanka named its first satellite Ravana-1. Addressing the conference of Civil Aviation held in Colombo in 2016, the then Aviation Minister Nirmala Siripala said that the history of modern aviation started with the Wright Brothers but there is legend in Sri Lanka that there was a brave king named Ravana named Dandu Monara. Used to fly a plane. Ravana flew not only Sri Lanka but the entire region.
The conference concluded that Ravana had left Sri Lanka 5,000 years ago for present-day India and returned. However, these stories were rejected that Ravana abducted Sita, the wife of Lord Rama. The government claimed that it was an Indian version and Ravana was a great king by contrast.
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Many people in Sri Lanka believe that Ravana was a compassionate king and scholar. Some Indian scriptures also describe him as “Maha Brahmin”, which means a great Brahmin or a great scholar. According to Ramayana, Ravana had a plane named Pushpak. He abducted Sita Mata on this plane.
Earlier, the Prime Minister of Nepal K.K. P. Sharma Oli had described Thori village in Nepal as the real birthplace of Lord Ram. After which, now the archeology department is planning research. The archeology department of Nepal is also considering digging in Thori village of Parsa district of Birganj.
Prime Minister of Nepal K.K. P. Oli had given an absurd statement that India has transgressed cultural facts. Oli said that till today we understand that our Sita was married to Indian Ram. While Nepal’s real birthplace is Nepal. After this claim, the archeology department of Nepal is also going to study to gather its evidence. Prime Minister of Nepal K.K. There was a lot of controversy after P. Oli’s claim. Nepal’s Foreign Ministry had said that Oli’s statement was not to dismiss the importance of Ayodhya in India, but to explore the mythological sites associated with the Ramayana and the deep roots of its heritage.
