Talk:Jaffna

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, now in the public domain.

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Tamil civilization, a collaborative effort to improve Wikipedia's coverage of Tamil related topics. If you would like to participate, please feel free to visit the project page to join.
???	This article has not yet been assigned a rating on the Project’s quality scale.
???	This article has not yet been assigned a rating on the Project’s importance scale.

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Dravidian civilizations, a collaborative effort to improve Wikipedia's coverage of Dravidian related topics. If you would like to participate, please feel free to visit the project page to join.
???	This article has not yet been assigned a rating on the Project’s quality scale.
???	This article has not yet been assigned a rating on the Project’s importance scale.

	This page is within the scope of WikiProject Sri Lanka, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to articles on Sri Lanka on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, you can edit the article attached to this page, or visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion.
???	This article has not yet received a rating on the Project's quality scale. Please rate the article and then leave a short summary here to explain the ratings and/or to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the article.

This article is within the scope of the WikiProject Sri Lanka Reconciliation, a collaborative, bipartisan effort to improve Wikipedia's coverage of the Sri Lankan Civil War. For guidelines and a participants list see the project page. You can discuss the project at its talk page.

All unnecssary comments deleted. Previous discussion deleted by 213.122.44.47, and a very irrelevant entry was inserted. Someone who has enough peviledges please rollback. 133.44.1.220 02:03, 2 December 2005 (UTC)

I have organized this article in an order that makes sence (at least to me) RaveenS 13:38, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

I have organized the article again RaveenS 13:59, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

Contents 1 Burnng of Library 2 Yakshas 3 History Section 4 Reintroducing historical material 5 WikiProject Dravidian civilizations

[edit] Burnng of Library

The statement added by someone that the Library was burnt down by The Army is completely false. I'm removing that statement.

However, according to the cited article, the Army helped rebuild it. So I'm adding that bit. --snowolfD4^{( talk / @ )} 20:07, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

Jaffna Library was burnt several times.

First time it was burnt by Cyril Mathew and Gamini Dissanayake, the ministers in the JR government and thousands of hooligans who accompanied them in two trains with free passage from Kurunegala to Jaffna during an District Council elections. The library and its hundred thousand of books were burnt on this instance and several valuable historical documents were burnt to ashes. this is the worst incident of library burning next to the mongol barbarians burning the Mesopotamian library.

The second time it was burnt by Army hooligans who were systematically destroying all the libraries in Jaffna including the Hartley College library somewhere in 1984/85 period.

--Cindy Manu 10:22, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Yakshas

Hi 152.91.9.8 !

Yazh or Yal is a not a derivative of the word Yaksha. Yazh is a tamil word for harp the musical instrument. Your edits are in your talk page!

harp in sinhala:

• Òó$ ѵÁßÂ×æß (Madura Sinhala-English Dictionary)

Yugayuga 23 January 2007.

[edit] History Section

The entire history section lacks citations and looks highly dubious to me. If no one provides inline citations for the text within the next few days I will have to remove the entire section and replace it with an older version like this. --snowolfD4^{( talk / @ )} 02:21, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

Let it stay for a couple of weeks. I will make the edits after my exams are done. Watchdogb 12:55, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Reintroducing historical material

I reverted to the earlier text with historial information cited with references. Snowolfd removed it based on the assumption that it was spurious. There are citations in each case i.e. Professor Pathmanathan, Professor Indrapala, Mudaliyar Rasanayagam, the Mahavamsa, Sangam era Tamil literary sources etc.

These could perhaps be footnoted as opposed to being included in the main text itself but to argue that it is spurious altogether is incorrect.

Once again, history is complex with multiple interpretations. To give a nationalist Sri Lankan point of view that Snowolf seems to be doing is unjust to the study of history. --Dipendra2007 15:02, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Dravidian civilizations

Wiki Raja 20:03, 14 October 2007 (UTC)