{"id":100895,"date":"2013-08-18T09:33:27","date_gmt":"2013-08-18T04:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=100895"},"modified":"2013-08-22T11:04:51","modified_gmt":"2013-08-22T05:34:51","slug":"no-you-cant-have-jam-yet-professor-sitrampalam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/no-you-cant-have-jam-yet-professor-sitrampalam\/","title":{"rendered":"No, You Can\u2019t Have Jam Yet Professor Sitrampalam!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">By <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Darshanie+Ratnawalli&amp;x=10&amp;y=5\">Darshanie Ratnawalli<\/a><\/span> &#8211;<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_85713\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/the-bbs-that-my-mother-likes\/darshanie-ratnawalli-1-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-85713\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-85713\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-85713\" title=\"darshanie ratnawalli (1)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/darshanie-ratnawalli-11-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/darshanie-ratnawalli-11-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/darshanie-ratnawalli-11-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-85713\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Darshanie Ratnawalli<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=AoBVIQEAAAAJ&amp;hl=en\">Professor S.K Sitrampalam<\/a><\/span> is the former professor of history in the University of Jaffna, a vice president of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Illankai_Tamil_Arasu_Kachchi\">ITAK<\/a><\/span> (euphemistically known as the Federal Party) and a specialist in South Asian history and Archaeology. He can be relied on\u2026 To take your breath away by bizarre displays of ignorance that is hard to explain away even with the excuse; \u2018nationalist historian\u2019. Unless \u2018nationalist historian\u2019 is a polite euphemism that really means \u2018unsound operative\u2019. Here is a demonstration from his <em>\u201c<\/em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ratnawalli.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Prof.-S.K.-Sittampalam-Tamils-of-Sri-Lanka-Historical-Roots-of-Tamil-identity.pdf\">Tamils of Sri Lanka: Historical Roots of Tamil identity<\/a><\/span><em>\u201d<\/em> (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?view_op=view_citation&amp;hl=en&amp;user=AoBVIQEAAAAJ&amp;citation_for_view=AoBVIQEAAAAJ:u-x6o8ySG0sC\">2003<\/a><\/span>).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt this juncture it is pertinent to quote Geiger who studied the Sinhala language in depth. He has divided its development into three phases. They are: Sinhalese Prakrit (3rd century B.C \u2013 4th century AD), proto\u2013Sinhalese (4th century AD \u2013 8th century A.D) Sinhalese proper (after 8th century A.D). Elu, is the original language from which the later Sinhalese developed. However, data from the Brahmi inscriptions show that the Elu would have been either old Tamil or a dialect of Tamil. In the light of the evidence from the Brahmi inscriptions it is now evident that the proto\u2013Sinhalese speakers, namely the Elu speakers came into contact with Prakrit, the language of Buddhism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The only appropriate way to respond to this is to imagine that one is a pre-school teacher and Professor Sitrampalam a tiny tot. \u201cOh honey\u201d one would say \u201cCome here. Sit. Wait let me wipe that jam off. You want to know what Elu is? You know \u2018Dharma\u2019?\u00a0 It\u2019s Sanskrit. \u2018dhamma\u2019 is the Pali form.\u00a0 Dam and daham are the Elu forms. Shall we see what the Old Sinhala or Sinhalese Prakrit form is? Here, this is the glossary of Inscriptions of Ceylon Vol. 1<a title=\"\" href=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/Ravindu\/Downloads\/Proffessor%20Sitrampalam-ct.docx#_edn1\">[i]<\/a>. Page 110. It\u2019s \u2018dama\u2019- truth, law, religion, virtue, etc. It can be seen in inscription number 923 as \u2018dama-katika\u2019- the expounder or preacher of religion. Shall we see the actual inscription? Here let me\u2026there\u2019s jam on your fingers. \u2018Damakatika Tisa\u2026.Pusaha (Tisaha lene)\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Shall we move on to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.columbia.edu\/cu\/mesaas\/faculty\/directory\/pollock_pub\/Introduction.pdf\">another book<\/a><\/span><a title=\"\" href=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/Ravindu\/Downloads\/Proffessor%20Sitrampalam-ct.docx#_edn2\">[ii]<\/a>? Turn to \u201c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.lk\/books?id=ak9csfpY2WoC&amp;pg=PA689&amp;lpg=PA689&amp;dq=Works+and+Persons+in+Sinhala+Literary+Culture%E2%80%9D+by+Charles+Hallisey&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=zaeofbqHgw&amp;sig=Ge11Zgu9UD8Fa7mpA9qUuwSRiJQ&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ei=Y0gPUq7AMc79rAeS4ICYAw&amp;sqi=2&amp;ved=0CDwQ6AEwA\">Works and Persons in Sinhala Literary Culture<\/a><\/span>\u201d by Charles Hallisey. \u201cSinhala literary culture during these centuries (he means between 10<sup>th<\/sup> and 15<sup>th<\/sup> centuries AD honey. It\u2019s in the previous paragraph) was internally diglossic, employing one \u201calphabet\u201d for writing Sinhala poetry and one for Sinhala prose. The script was the same for both; the difference between the two was the number of permitted letters (aksaras), prose, having fifty seven, against thirty-six for poetry. The alphabet for poetic Sinhala (elu) prevented the use of many Sanskrit loanwords (tatsamas) because it lacked letters for the aspirated consonants of Sanskrit, although Sanskrit loanwords became as common in Sinhala prose as they later were in the literatures of other local languages else-where in South Asia. Sanskrit loanwords apparently became common in spoken Sinhala too, as well as in Sinhala Buddhist discourse: the Sanskritic <em>dharmaya<\/em> (Truth, the Buddha\u2019s Teaching) is far more common than <em>daham<\/em> or <em>d\u00e4h\u00e4m, <\/em>found in <em>elu<\/em>, whereas there is no <em>tatsama<\/em> in Sinhala from the Pali equivalent, <em>dhamma<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Shall we look for more Elu words then? You are not tired? Page 117, IC-I. Sanskrit and Pali <em>bh\u016bmi <\/em>. Means land? It\u2019s <em>bima<\/em> in Elu. It\u2019s bumi in Old Sinhala (without the aspirate you know honey what they call <em>\u2018the mahaprana bha<\/em>\u2019 in Sinhala?)<\/p>\n<p>Here this is inscription 1215. See the term \u201cbumi dine\u201d? And this 1226; \u201cbumi karahaka dine\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>And the Sanskrit <em>d\u012brgha <\/em>is d\u012bgha in Pali. Long, tall. Can you guess what that is in Elu? No? Look in p 111. Now tell. <em>Digu<\/em> good boy! Now what is it in Old Sinhala? <em>Diga<\/em> without the aspirate or the mahaprana.<\/p>\n<p>Remember that man whose name was <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cumaratunga_Munidasa\">Cumaratunga Munid\u0101sa<\/a><\/span>? He was often called Munidas. Because of his Elu aspirations. Sanskrit d\u0101sa or d\u0101sya, Pali d\u0101sa, Elu das. And in Old Sinhala it was dasa again without the long vowel.<\/p>\n<p>And where in the world did you get the idea that Elu is another name for Proto-Sinhala (\u201cit is now evident that the proto\u2013Sinhalese speakers, namely the Elu speakers came into contact with Prakrit, the language of Buddhism\u201d???) Who told you that? I see no citation for that. Did you think that up yourself? Honey, then you haven\u2019t understood the basics. Go to the blackboard. Write \u2018Sinhalese Prakrit (300 BC- 400 AD)\u2019. Draw a horizontal arrow from it. After the arrow write \u2018Proto-Sinhala (400 AD-800 AD)\u2019. Another horizontal arrow from that (No! no more jam until you get this) then write \u2018Sinhalese Proper (800 AD to present)\u2019. What the arrows mean honey is that Sinhalese Prakrit evolved into Proto-Sinhala, which evolved into Sinhalese proper. See these two dolls? Imagine these two are Sinhalese Prakrit speakers. 700 years pass (I will wave this scarf to show 700 years passing) and hey presto, these two dolls are now\u2026what? Proto-Sinhala speakers, that\u2019s right! So how can they come into contact with Prakrit again? Through time travel? Honey where did you get your PhD? Poona? An excellent university I am sure. You want to be a credit or a discredit to them? Credit? Then pay attention without looking at the Jam cupboard.<\/p>\n<p>Now darling, the second fatal error you are making is in saying \u201cPrakrit, the language of Buddhism\u201d. Honey, it\u2019s the other way around. Prakrit was the language of the land, which became the language of Buddhism when it arrived around 3<sup>rd<\/sup> century BC.\u00a0 By the time Buddhism arrived the language called Sinhalese Prakrit was already here, had been here for a few centuries knocking against the palettes of the people and changing into a language distinct from all Indo-Aryan languages of North India. Honey all this time have you been thinking that the monks brought the language here in the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> Century BC? Now don\u2019t deny it. You have written; \u201cThe study of Brahmi inscriptions shows that monastic language of Prakrit gradually spread to the population over a period of centuries, a process similar to the process of Sanskritisation.\u201d And who do you cite as your authority for this? Susantha Gunetilleke: 1980<a title=\"\" href=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/Ravindu\/Downloads\/Proffessor%20Sitrampalam-ct.docx#_edn3\">[iii]<\/a>!!!. A non-specialist source. (Honey where did you get that PhD again?). Your homework today. Write the following passage from <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/James_Gair\">James Gair<\/a><\/span>; 1981, \u201c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ratnawalli.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Prof.-James-W.-Gair-Studies-in-South-Asian-Linguistics-Sinhala-other-South-Asian-languages.pdf\">Sinhala, An Indo Aryan Isolate<\/a><\/span>\u201d twenty times.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSinhala tradition has it that the group that brought the languages with them arrived on the date of the <em>parinibbh\u0101na <\/em>(final passing away) of the Buddha, traditionally 544-543 B.C. As a matter of fact, somewhere around that time does appear to be a reasonable date, since we have inscriptions in Old Sinhala dating from the early second or late third centuries B.C., and by that time the language had already under-gone important changes that made it distinct from any of the Indo-Aryan languages of North India.<a title=\"\" href=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/Ravindu\/Downloads\/Proffessor%20Sitrampalam-ct.docx#_edn4\">[iv]<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I know it is a lot of words. But it\u2019s for your own good. We don\u2019t want your colleagues cutting you dead in conferences do we? Or worse, to snigger behind your back? All right, have some jam now.<\/p>\n<p><em>*<\/em><em>The writer can be found at\u00a0http:\/\/ratnawalli.blogspot.co.uk\/and rathnawalli@gmail.com<\/em><\/p>\n<div>\n<hr align=\"left\" size=\"1\" width=\"33%\" \/>\n<div>\n<p><a title=\"\" href=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/Ravindu\/Downloads\/Proffessor%20Sitrampalam-ct.docx#_ednref1\">[i]<\/a> Inscriptions of Ceylon, Volume I, Early Brahmi Inscriptions, S. Paranavitana: 1970<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><a title=\"\" href=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/Ravindu\/Downloads\/Proffessor%20Sitrampalam-ct.docx#_ednref2\">[ii]<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/jaar.oxfordjournals.org\/content\/74\/4\/1030.full.pdf\">Literary Cultures in History: Reconstructions from South Asia. Edited by Sheldon Pollock. University of California Press, 2003<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><a title=\"\" href=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/Ravindu\/Downloads\/Proffessor%20Sitrampalam-ct.docx#_ednref3\">[iii]<\/a> Susantha Goonetilleke,\u00a0<em>Sinhalisation: Migration or Cultural Colonization?<\/em>\u00a0Lanka Guardian Vol. 3, No. I, May I, 1980, pp. 22-29, and May 15 1980, pp. 18-19<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><a title=\"\" href=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/Ravindu\/Downloads\/Proffessor%20Sitrampalam-ct.docx#_ednref4\">[iv]<\/a> \u201cFor the present, it would appear that Sinhalese-Prakrit was considerably removed from the Indian Prakrits in the second century BCE (when the earliest Br\u0101hm\u012b cave records appear). This would mean that after the introduction of one or more forms of Prakrit in the island, changes had taken place over a considerable period, perhaps two or more centuries. In all probability, the origin of Sinhalese-Prakrit in the island dates back to a time before the arrival of Prakrit-speaking Buddhist monks in the third century BCE\u201d. \u2013(P 91, The Evolution of an Ethnic Identity, K. Indrapala, 2005)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":85713,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,46,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-constitutional-reforms","category-editorial"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>No, You Can\u2019t Have Jam Yet Professor Sitrampalam!  - Colombo Telegraph<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/no-you-cant-have-jam-yet-professor-sitrampalam\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"No, You Can\u2019t Have Jam Yet Professor Sitrampalam! 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