The Hindu - Buddhist religious and social reconciliation reflected from pre-Buddhist time to the 3rd Century AC period in Sri Lanka

This topic and the research undergone the subject of Historical Archaeology and its social factors which were covering major part of nature of the subject. The Archaeological evidence confirms that the cross-cultural and social ties between the people of South India and Sri Lanka in pre-Buddhist time of the history are being revealed from earlier years. Archaeological evidence of various artefacts as well as settlements such as coins, pots and carvings belonging to the pre- Buddhist period have been found in the North, North Central, North Western and Eastern as well as Southern Provinces of Sri Lanka. According to these facts, among the religious beliefs practiced by the people in the early period before the conversion to Buddhism were tree worship, rock worship and sun deities, etc, these religions attributed divinity to objects of nature are prominent, and there is evidence that religions such as phallic worship, which were part of the Vedic Hindu faith, were prevalent among the people