The earliest account of Vedda was written by Ryklof Van Goens ( 1663 1675 ), who served as a Director General of the Dutch East India Company in Sri Lanka.
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As a link to the Vedda past, the temple holds its annual festival that celebrates the God's courtship and marriage to a Vedda princess in July to August.
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As a link to the Vedda past, the temple holds its annual festival that celebrates the God's courtship and marriage to a Vedda princess in July to August.
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The haplotypes and analysis of molecular variance revealed that Vedda people s mitochondrial sequences are more related to the Sinhalese and Sri Lankan Tamils than the Indian Tamils sequences . ""
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"Va7 7 i " is used to refer to many tribal or indigenous peoples'goddesses in Tamil Nadu and Kerala and by the Rodiya and Vedda peoples of Sri Lanka.
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The Vedda people used the breed for hunting, and it was prized after the bow and arrow, so much so that the dogs were given away with daughters on their marriage.
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One of the most distinctive features of Vedda religion is the worship of dead ancestors, who are called " nae yaku " among the Sinhala-speaking Veddas and are invoked for game and yams.
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In the Malaya region of Lanka, they became husband-wife and gave rise to the Pulinda race ( identified with the Vedda people; not to be confused with the Pulindas of India ).
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Kataragama is supposed to be the site where the Hindu god Skanda or Murugan in Tamil met and married a local tribal girl, Valli, who in Sri Lanka is believed to have been a Vedda.
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Additionally, communities such as Coast Veddas and Anuradhapura Veddas, that do not strictly identify themselves as Veddas also used the Vedda language in part for communication during hunting and or for religious chants, throughout the island.
