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I have found inconsistent information about the time period covered by the Culavamsa. Rhajiv Ratnatunga in his " Editors Note" on the Web version of the Mahavamsa, says it covers the period up to 1815, when the British took over Sri Lanka. A Britannica article, however, says it goes up to the "16th century". I went with Ratnatunga's information, because, first, he seems "closer to the source", second, the History of Sri Lanka article lists the "Great Dynasty" (that is, the Mahavamsa/Culavamsa works) as ending in 1815, and third, because the "16th" in the Britannica article could easily be a mistype of "19th". If anyone is sure I am wrong, please change this, both here and in the Mahavamsa article. — Nowhither 23:25, 21 August 2005 (UTC) reply

Transliterating Pāli into English seems to be an inconsistent business. "Culavamsa", in particular, has three possible variations: the leading "c" can be "ch", the "v" can be a "w", and it might be two words ("Cula Vamsa"). Thus, there are a total of 8 possible transliterations. I did a Google search, and found that by far the most common is "Culavamsa", and so that is where I placed the main article. The next most common was "Chulavamsa", and so I mention this as an alternate spelling both here and in the Mahavamsa article. There were a few pages that used the single-word "w" forms ("Culawamsa" or "Chulawamsa"), and so I made these redirects, but did not mention these alternative spellings on the page. Lastly, I found exactly one page on the whole web that wrote the name as two words, so I did neither redirects nor mentions in the article for the two-word versions. — Nowhither 23:38, 21 August 2005 (UTC) reply