This was due to the fact that into the Kandyan area, sexual morality hardly ever mattered and you can polygyny (a person getting more than one wife),polyandry (a female bringing several spouse) and you can concubinage was indeed most of the accepted just like the legal

Asiff Hussein had written: As with Asia marriages when you look at the status were this new recognized standard. Robert Knox, an English exile whom spent nearly 20 years in the Kandyan Empire (1660 – 1679) claims in the works “Historical Family off Ceylon” (1681): “That isn’t accounted any shame or fault to own one of high kinds in order to put having a female much lower so you can himself, nay extremely reasonable training, given he none takes nor products with her, neither requires their unique where you can find their home while the his spouse.” [Source: Obtained from Sinhalese, Kandyan and you can early United kingdom day and age literary present of the Asiff Hussein, Digital Library Sri Lanka lankalibrary ]

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