Kandyan

Speech parts

1. Kandyan - Noun

2. Kandyan - Adjective

Meaning

Kandyan (comparative more Kandyan, superlative most Kandyan)

Of or relating to the city of Kandy in Sri Lanka.

Kandyan (plural Kandyans)

A native or inhabitant of the city of Kandy in Sri Lanka.

Examples

Basic civil law is Roman-Dutch, but laws pertaining to marriage, divorce, and inheritance are communal, known as respectively as Kandyan, Thesavalamai (Jaffna Tamil) and Muslim (Roman-Dutch law applies to Low-country Sinhalese, Estate Tamils and others). Source: Internet

Colombo: Asian Educational Services. 4. Medieval history In the 15th century a Kandyan Kingdom formed which divided the Sinhalese politically into low-country and up-country. Source: Internet

Thus a large number of Keralans and Tamils from south India found their way into the Kandyan kingdom. Source: Internet

He even went to India to invite Ponnambalam Ramanathan to contest against the Sinhala candidate, whom the Govigama Kandyan supremacists saw as a low caste. Source: Internet

This unreasonable, defensive, frog-in-the well type of principle was derived from the 1815 Kandyan Convention. Source: Internet

Even the Nayakkar (Tamil) Kings of the Kandyan Kingdom respected Buddhist values and never diluted them with ideas alien to Buddhism. Source: Internet

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