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“RELICS OF OLD CEYLON”(SERIES)   by Desmond Kelly ‘the Star of eLanka’ With our thousands of years of “culture”, I can only “write” of the “Ceylon” I remember & cherish. This Land, our home, has had many “prior-names” but none as pretty or.poetic as Ceylon. “Relics of old Ceylon” therefore, will feature “treasures” that must never be forgotten. I bring them to all my readers of eLanka, in a new age, as an effort to bring back “old memories” that could quite easily be forgotten as the “old Ceylon” , now Sri Lanka,is “modernised” almost beyond recognition. The Kings of old Ceylon (Queens of bygone eras simply lived to serve their “Kings”), not only “ruled” their people, they ordered them to build several collossal temples & statues in recognition of a former “Prince” of “Mother-India” which was the main Island from which the “tear-drop” in the Indian Ocean, Ceylon, was ...