{"id":101977,"date":"2013-08-24T00:49:23","date_gmt":"2013-08-23T19:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=101977"},"modified":"2013-09-04T02:49:54","modified_gmt":"2013-09-03T21:19:54","slug":"the-ariya-sinhala-suit-a-plea-for-clarification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/the-ariya-sinhala-suit-a-plea-for-clarification\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ariya Sinhala Suit: A Plea For Clarification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\"><strong>By\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=R.S.Perinbanayagam&amp;x=11&amp;y=2\">Robert Siddharthan Perinbanayagam<\/a><\/span>\u00a0&#8211;<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_81354\" style=\"width: 147px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/life-and-times-in-old-jaffna-a-review\/r-s-perinbanayagam\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-81354\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-81354\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-81354\" title=\"R.S. Perinbanayagam\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/R.S.-Perinbanayagam-137x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"137\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-81354\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Prof. R.S.Perinbanayagam<\/p><\/div>\n<p align=\"left\">In recounting one of his heroic deeds\u00a0 in a recent article in a newspaper, a government servant describes one of his contacts as wearing an &#8220;Ariya Sinhala suit&#8221;. I have seen this description of a particular style of clothing in other accounts as well.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">What\u00a0 exactly is an Ariya Sinhala suit? What is the origin of this form of dress and the provenance of this concept ? Did it originate with\u00a0 what our history books call &#8220;the Ariyan immigration&#8221;? Did Vijaya and\u00a0 his associates wear the Ariya Sinhala suit, since he was of course the first Aryan? Did they however wear\u00a0 the bifurcated pajama which originated in Iran before ot migrated to other places? Incidentally what did the young prince&#8217;s first inamorata, the beautiful, and according to all accounts, quite irresistible Kuvenie wear? Was she clothed at all? Is an Ariya Sinhala\u00a0 suit only worn by those to the manner born to be Ariyas? If the dravidians wear some version of\u00a0 it does it then\u00a0 become a Dravidian suit?<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">I wish some of the learned contributors to this website will explain the term,and its historical and sociological origins as well\u00a0 describe its stylistic features.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":81354,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8,2938,6968],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-editorial","category-popular","category-popular-columns"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Ariya Sinhala Suit: A Plea For Clarification - 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