ஊலர் Hoole திசை திருப்புகிறார்

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1. "Old families from Changili Thoppu, the Hensmans, and the Phillipses, may assert royalty through their lands there," says Hoole. He acknowledges that these families were the initial rice bowl Christians. There were no Christians in Tamil areas before them.

2. "King Changili martyred the first Franciscans and many Tamil saints, including his own son," says Hoole. The fact remains that at Mannar Inquisition, thousands of Saivaites were killed to be buried at a grave in the present-day Mannar town. Carbon dating of this grave testifies them as 480-year-old remnants of bones and skulls. This inquisition was conducted by Francis Xavier in person along with his lieutenant John Lawson. King Sankili II sent a force headed by his son. Cunningly the inquisition mastero Xavier imprisoned the son with the support of Portuguese soldiers. So King Sankili II led a force to Mannar, drove the Portuguese soldiers away. The captive son was killed by the avenging Portuguese soldiers.  Sankili II killed John Lawson. Francis Xavier escaped to Tuticorin. Franciscans and few converts were killed during the victorious war led by Sankili II. All those killed at war were burnt in wooden pyres following Sankili II's  Hindu tradition.

3. "Changili took baptism in Goa before his beheading for his crimes, testifying “I would rather die a Christian Coolie than a Heathen King” and “uttering the sweet name of Jesus” (Queiroz, 690-1) says, Hoole.
Queiros wrote the Conquista temporal, e espiritual de Ceylão,
although he had himself never traveled to the island. At Goa, there is no archival material supporting the description of Queiroz on Sankili II. Except for Queiroz, no other Portuguese historian either in Lisbon or in Goa recorded so.

4. Hoole dismisses Yalpaana Vaipava Maalai as "nonsence'. Hoole trusts the word of the far away Queiroz whose primary interest was the restoration of the central role of the Portuguese military in Srilanka, a fact that sits uneasily with his religious vocation. Also, Queiroz had no access to textual sources in Sri Lanka as Dutch were in control of coastal Sri Lanka. Also, Dutch had banned Catholicism in their territories. For the Jesuit historians, especially those who wrote history without visiting Sri Lanka, the textual sources and oral traditions of Sri Lankan non- Christians were imperfect.

5. Queiroz never attempted to learn about the linguistic traditions of Sri Lanka. He writes that an inscription in “ancient characters of the Chingala” was found on the stone after dismantling a temple in Triquimale (Trincomalee). The passage was deciphered, according to Queiroz as meaning that “there will come a nation called Francos who will demolish it [this temple] and there will be no King in this Island to rebuild it anew.” Let these rice bowl ancestry-laden Hoole know that it was Queiroz who wrote "nonsense" as the Trincomalee inscription is in Tamil. Conversely,  Queiroz thought that all Sri Lankans of his time spoke Tamil. He did not know that the southern Sri Lankans spoke Sinhalese and most Buddhist religious texts were written in Pali.

6. "There is an ongoing attempt to call the temple area Siva Boomi," says Hoole. Let it be known to Hoole and other rice-bowl ancestry-laden Christians that Nallur has been and shall continue to be the seat of Tamil tradition and culture as Siva Boomi. Desert sprang cults and philosophies are violent intrusions into this sacred Siva Boomi to be deported at our earliest convenience.