"Sinhala" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... etc. That accidents in the history of marine affairs in those seas should have led to the adoption of the Malay and Javanese names in the case of Ceylon also is at least conceivable. But Dr. Caldwell has pointed out to me that the Pali form of Sinhala was Sihalan, and that this must have been colloquially shortened to Silan, for it appears in old Tamul inscriptions as Ilam.[1] Hence there is nothing really strained in the derivation of Sailan from Sinhala. Tennent (Ceylon, I. ...
— The Travels of Marco Polo, Volume 2 • Marco Polo and Rustichello of Pisa |
