Hyderabad: Following pictures of Maha Gadhayudha (a popular weapon used in ancient wars in India), charred walls and the skeleton of a giant human that are doing the rounds on the social media stating that these are evidences of Ramayana’s era in Sri Lanka, the Sri Lankan government has issued a statement declaring that all these so-called evidences were fake.
Mr Indrajit De Silva from Sri Lankan government told this newspaper that the government did not find any such huge/Maha Gadhayudha or cave or palace of Ravana that was burnt by Hanuman when he came to Lanka to look for Sita Devi who had been abducted by King Ravana.
“Pictures of Maha Gadha are not true and some pictures of a palace that was supposedly burnt by Hanuman are not true either. We have found that the pictures are of a coliseum located in Rome and someone took a part of the coliseum and uploaded it in social media stating that it was Ravana’s palace in Sri Lanka”, he said.
He also denied social media messages relating to the skeleton of Kumbakarna, weapons of Ravana, the burnt Ashoka Vanam and other ‘proofs’. Mr De Silva said that the Sri Lankan government had identified only 56 sites and things that were related to the era of Ramayana and Ravana of which only 25 sites were accessible. “Nagadeepa, Ravana Goda, Ravana Cave, Sitawaka, Yudhuganawa, Sita Tear Pond, Ritigala and Talladi (Sanjeevani drops) and Yahangala are available for tourists but the other localities are difficult to reach,” he said.
