Talk:Elara (monarch)

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This article presents that Elara was an acatual king but he is known only from Mahavamsa and there are secondary sources that cliam that

  • 1. He may have been fictious creation all along as it was written down 700 years after his supposed death.
  • 2. If he were real then he may have not been an invader but a local usurper of throne that too a Hindu

So we have a lot to do to improve this article rather than to prsent this Monarch as a real person when we dont have any evidence to it in India (where he is supposed to have come from) or Sri Lanka (epighraphic to support the literray source) 16:04, 6 December 2007 (UTC)