GREAT HISTORY OF SHIP BUILDING IN SRI LANKA Before the end of the eighth century, South Asia including Sri Lanka has had a notoriety for building the biggest ships in the Asian waters. As per the early ninth century Chinese administrator and author, Li Chao, of the numerous ships that touched base in the ports of Annam and Canton in China the boats from the Loin Kingdom (Sri Lanka) were the biggest. He has likewise expressed that there were stairways for stacking and emptying in those boats. Substantiating Pliny, he further specifies that the sailors of the island, kept white pigeons ready for boats. In 1155 AD the Arab geographer, Al Idrisi, expressed that Arab ships from Oman and Yemen came to Sri Lanka and different islands in the region (most presumably Laccadives and Maldives) to get ropes, coconut trunks and timber furthermore to place requests for boats developed there. Coconut trunks were utilized for poles and ropes for hanging cruises and tying down. As indicated by the Mahavamsa, Parakramabahu I (1153-86) of Polonnaruva, so as to dispatch a war against lower Myanmar in 1165, made arrangements ahead of time. The war was directed to retaliate for the mortifications endured by Sri Lankan agents and dealers amid the rule of Alaungsitu in Ramannadesa or Myanmar. The trustworthiness of the occasion is validated by the Devanagala engraving datable to the twelfth year of Parakramabahu I. This engraving records an area stipend to officer Kitnuwaragal for rendering profitable administrations in the Myanmar battle. For this retaliatory undertaking boats were developed amid a time of five months. As indicated by the anal the whole drift looked like one incredible workshop. This announcement of the writer may be a misrepresentation yet the actuality remains that the long standing convention of building dealer vessels was bridled at this point to transport troops, nursing orderlies, arms, sustenance and therapeutic supplies.
Posted on: Wed, 01 Oct 2014 08:56:50 +0000
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