KING MOGGALLANA  THE  2nd  –  MOGGALLANA  THE MAGNIFICIENT – BY Bernard VanCuylenburg PROLOGUE   The recorded history of ancient Lanka begins with the arrival of Prince Vijaya from South India in the year 483 BC and ends with the conquest of the Kandyan Kingdom by the British in 1815 AD and the defeat of King Sri Wickremasinghe Rajasinghe, the last king of Kandy. Thus ended the monarchy of Ceylon which spanned a period of over 2000 years. In the hands of any good Hollywood writer or producer, the melting pot of history during this period has all the ingredients for a box office winner  – Lust, greed, passion, hate, romance, murder, patricide, nymphomania (as has been recorded during the reign of one female queen)   – in short the seven deadly sins multiplied many times over !  King Moggallana the 2nd is one of the relative “unknowns”. This ...

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