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A close study
of the Ramayana, particularly the last book or Uttara Kanda, reveals that Ravana, the
enemy of Lord Rama, was not a Dravidian, as many people have thought, but related to the
Sri Lanka, who are considered to be Aryans-that Ravana was a migrant to Sri Lanka from the
Vedic family of the Yadus, perhaps deriving originally from the city of Mathura south of
Delhi. The first wave of migrants to Sri Lanka from the north was from Gujarat and of the
Yadu family, which dominated the southwest of India and from the region of Gujarat had
access to the sea on which they travelled far in their trading and colonizing
ventures.
The Ramayana tells the Ravana, the king of Sri Lanka, had close connections with region of
the Yadus, which included Gujarat, parts of Maharashtra and Rajasthan up to Mathura south
of Delhi.
Author : David Frawley
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