RASSL lecture: The Buddha’s Sri Lankan visits
View(s):“The Buddha’s Sri Lankan visits-an Astro-Archaeological point of view” will be the subject of this month’s Royal Asiatic Society Sri Lanka (RASSL)’s public lecture. It will be delivered by Dr. Kavan Ratnatunga, astrophysicist, Post Graduate Institute of Archaeology on Monday, May 25 at 5 p.m. at the Gamini Dissanayake Auditorium, No. 96, Ananda Coomaraswamy Mawatha, Colombo 7. All are welcome.
The description of the event seen above the battle between the Nagas, Mahodara and Culodara matches the Total Solar Eclipse on BCE 481 April 19 at 8.30 a.m. That event considered at the time as a miracle has been attributed by monks who wrote the 4th / 5th century CE chronicles of Lanka as the 2nd visit of the Buddha to Lanka, who in the words in the Dipavamsa was seen as the stainless Moon.