Dutugemunu's banner is seen with a royal lion carrying in its raised right paw a sword and also the emblems of the sun and moon while that of Elara is a plain banner with four horizontal lines. Flags ...

Then, before Britain’s Royal Duke & Duchess of Gloucester (who ... Don Stephen (“Jungle John”) Senanayake hauled the old Lion flag to its place atop the Temple of the Tooth.* ...

The government of British Ceylon used its own flag. The Lion Flag was taken to England and kept at the Royal Hospital Chelsea. As the years passed, the design of the flag was forgotten by the Sri ...