Historical survey of Sri Lankan traditional dance

Source material written by foreign and local scholars is full of misinterpretations and misinformation, thus making it a formidable task to elaborate upon a historical survey of Sri Lankan traditional dances. According to literary sources it is said that the first reference of dance in Sri Lanka is associated with the episode of Kuveni and Vijaya, the symbolic representation of the indigenous people of Sri Lanka and the first Aryan settler.

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