The principal thing for this country, and for the singhalese, is the worship of the planets.
"The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies"
Robert Gordon Latham
This creates a variety; the Kandyans being somewhat ruder than the other singhalese.
"The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies"
Robert Gordon Latham
Their language, however, is singhalese; an important fact, since it denotes one of two phenomena,-either the antiquity of the conquest of Ceylon supposing the extension of the singhalese language to have been gradual, or the thorough-going character of it, if it be recent.
"The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies"
Robert Gordon Latham