The Lion Hill

Sithiravelu Karunanandarajah

This story based on a historical information of Sri Lanka derived out from a sub chronicle called 'Culavamsam' of Mahavamsam, the main book. A patricide king ruled north central part of Sri Lanka, called Anuradhapura Kingdom who over threw his father's reign with the help of his cousin as well as bother in law. The king father spent all his wealth in building up many irrigation tanks to develop agriculture in his kingdom but, this was not appreciated by both traitors who conducted the coup to capture the kingdom. They searched for wealth and interrogated the king to find out the treasures. The second son of the king who was the heir to the kingdom escaped from the coup, lived in exile under the refuge of their ancestral enemy. read the rest