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It is a fact that the first farmers were the hunter-gathers and fishermen. It is also acknowledged that maritime history cannot be overlooked when discussing the early settlement of the island. ==The Ancient Period== Ancient Period—Kuru Kingdom in India with its capital at Hastinapur, inhabited by the Kauravas and the Pandavas from the royal line of King Bharata. Mahabharata war between the Kauravas and their cousins the Pandavas and the dispersal of Kauravas in the Asian region. Early British scholars such as Dalton discovered several communities spuriously claiming descent from the Kauravas, including Kaorwa in the Punjab and Kaurs in Jasapur; Udaepur; Sirgeya; Korea; Chand; Bhakar and Korba of Chittisgarin (Tod II 256); Gaurava, a Rajput caste practicing widow remarriage (Karewa) in the Delhi district (Elliot quoted by Habib 150); Karaiar, an Karawa in Ceylon (Neville II 9); Curus in Coromandel; and Taprobane. (RAS 157 and 158.) ;550 BC Buddha visits the Kuru Kingdom, which is by then nothing like the powerful and extensive Kuru kingdom of the Mahabharata. By then it is just another ''Mahajanapada'' of India but famed as a kingdom inhabited by an extremely intelligent and clever race. The Buddha preaches the profound Satipattana Sutta, Maha Nidana Sutta, Āneñjasappāya Sutta, Māgaṇḍiya Sutta, Raṭṭhapāla Sutta, Sammasa Sutta and Dutiya Ariyāvāsa Sutta to the Kauravas as they were intelligent and clever enough to understand these higher doctrines. The Buddha has referred to himself as 'the kinsman of the Sun' in several Suttas, according to the Karavas, emphasizing his Kshatriya status. However, it is widely accepted that the Buddha was one of the foremost opponents of the ancient caste system of Hindu India. ;500 BC Migration of a community of Kauravas to Sri Lanka with Prince Karavanti, a minister of prince Vijaya. The putative port of landing of the prince is in northwest Sri Lanka and contagious with the region later known as Kuru Rata with a city named Hastinapura (Kurunegala) named after the Mahabharata capital of the Kauravas. ;300 BC Migration of more Kauravas with Theri Sanghamitta, the daughter of the Indian Emperor Ashoka, who brought the sacred Bo sapling to Sri Lanka. The Bodhiyabaduge and several other Karava clans ascribe their migration to this event. ;Pre-Christian and early Christian era * Karavas are influential enough to have their own permanent council terrace. The inscription of Ila Barata, Kuruvira, Karava Navika and others is inscribed on a vertical rock face of a terrace to the north west of the ancient Abhayagiri Dagaba in Anuradhapura. (Paranavitana xo 94.) * Bharata warriors appear as wealthy and prominent patrons of the Sangha in Brahmi rock inscriptions scattered across Sri Lanka right into the deep south. (). Unlike other Brahmi inscriptions, many of these inscriptions bear the symbol of a ship. * The pre-Christian rock inscriptions of the Kataragama Kshatriyas always bear the fish symbol. * Recent excavations in the south have uncovered many types of coins from the same period with the fish symbol. The fish symbol and the ship symbol are recurrent symbols on Karava Heraldry. ;2nd century * According to the old Sinhala texts ''Rajavaliya, Janavamsa'' and ''Kadaim-Poth'', King Gajabahu I brings a large community of Kauravas among 24,000 second generation Sri Lankan captives and Indian prisnors from Chola, and settles them in Kuru Rata, the present negombo Chilaw region and calls it Aluth Kuru Rata (the new Kuru country) and renames the previous synonymous region Parana Kuru Rata (The old Kuru country). The Sun and Moon Flag of the Kaurava is now called the district flag of this region. ;4th century * A rock inscription by Karava Tissa a mariner in veragala. (H. W. Codrington appendix 193.) ;Anuradhapura and Polonnaruwa periods * Sri Lanka continues to be ruled by Kshatriya kings, who claim descent from Indian Solar and Lunar Dynasties. Their royal symbols are the Sun and the Moon. The Lion was not a royal symbol for these monarchs and they used the lion image on foot-stones at entrances to buildings and on urinal-stones. Whether the lion was a royal symbol even for the Kalinga monarchs of Sri Lanka who claimed to hail from Sinhapura (lion city) is quite debatable. In addition, Kings such as Parakramabahu the Great, Nissankamalla and other kings have also used the Fish symbol on their inscriptions. The Fish symbol too is a recurrent royal symbol on Karava Heraldry. * The Overlord's share of tax is called Kara Kadaya in a Sri Lankan royal inscription. (EZ II 59.) ;7th – 8th centuries * Arikesari Maravarman attacks the Paravas who did not submit to him and destroys the people of Kuru Nadu in the Pandyan Kingdom. (Sastri 52.) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Timeline of the Karavas」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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