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Created: 2025-07-21 20:03:16 UTC

There isn’t any historical evidence or scholarly consensus to suggest that the name "Sri Lanka" was chosen with malicious intent. 

The name "Sri Lanka" simply combines the Sanskrit honorific "Sri" (meaning "venerable" or "resplendent") with "Lanka," a name for the island found in ancient Indian texts and used for millennia to describe the land. The official adoption of "Sri Lanka" in 1972 was intended as a move away from colonial names like "Ceylon" and to revive local heritage, not as an act of malice.


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