: According to some interpretations of the text, the "Sinhalese" (or people of the island of Lanka) are mentioned as having fought on the side of the Kauravas during the Kurukshetra War.
තමන් කරන ක්රියාවන්හි විපාක තමන් කරා ම පැමිණෙන බව. mahabharata sinhala
Though primarily a novelist, Sri Lanka’s literary giant Martin Wickramasinghe wrote essays comparing Greek epics, the Mahabharata, and Buddhist Jataka tales. His works encourage Sinhala readers to appreciate the Mahabharata as world literature. : According to some interpretations of the text,
Some Sinhala scholars even argue that the Mahabharata’s battle of Kurukshetra is an allegory of the internal war between wholesome ( kusala ) and unwholesome ( akusala ) mind states. mahabharata sinhala