Lion King

Published on 26th April, 2020, in Mid-day Once upon a time, there was a princess of Kalinga, who was abducted by a lion who forced her to bear him a child. The child, Sinhabahu, killed his own father and, for this crime, was told to leave the country on a ship. He travelled to a special island in the south known as the island of gems. There, he met a yakshini and together, they had children. But, to become a king, he needed an Aryan wife and thus, he married a princess from the Pandyan lands. This angered the yakshini, who returned to her people, ..