Prince Vijaya & the Bengali Ancestry of Sri Lankans
Just look at the history of how a Indian community named Bengalis migrated & colonized the island of Sri Lanka & established Independent kingdom. * Prince Vijaya Singha Prince Vijay Singha is the first historical king of Sinhala who was a Bengali prince from the kingdom of Sinhapura. According to the Mahฤvamลa, an ancient chronicle of Sri Lanka’s kings written in Pali, there was a kingdom named Singhapura in Vanga, located in the south-western way Rarh region of Bengal, that's todays Singur in the Hooghly district in West Bengal state of India. The Bengali Prince of Sinhapura named Vijaya Singha sailed on 8 ships to Sri Lanka with 700 of his people in 22 April 543 BC and established the kingdom of Sinhala. Legend describes the Sinhalese as descendants of Vijaya and his people, who would have lived in parts of Sinhapura & Tamralipta port, today’s Hooghly & Purba Medinipur districts of West Bengal. The Mahavamsa mentions another town in Rarh called Banga