Sri Lanka and Madagascar history relations?

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Hi, I noticed that you're intersted on Sri Lanka history. I've made a contribution about Madagascar history (article: Andrianampoinimerina) and my personal researches point a possible origin in Sri Lanka and Malaysia to the Malagasy Merina nobility: Rajput and Jat wariors, Malay and Javanese wariors, AD 1200-1300, Buddhism, planting Ficus Religiosa, calling cattle "jomoka" (Sanskrit gomukha), calling dogs "alika" (Sanskrit alika), dress in silk, planting wet red rice in valley bottom ricefield, rice vocabulary is in Tamil, etc. we can found all of that in Sri Lankan history...it seems like they fly away from Sri Lanka with their clan after a terrible battle. so please, if you know anything about Rajput warriorsn Malay and Javanese wariors who fled away from Sri Lanka between AD 1200-1300 tell me: it will solve some big problems in Madagascar history. Thank you in advance. Cheers: Mounblow (talk) 04:08, 17 May 2008 (UTC)Reply

Replaceable fair use Image:SF_Solders_at_Sampoor.jpg

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Nomination of Category:Sri Lankan terrorists for Deletion

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