![]() ![]() Persons with Vijay Simha married local ladies and their descendants were called Simhal. That could be due to Attack of Vijay Singh with 700 sailors from Tāmralipti port described in a Hindi epic Padmāvata by Rasakhān of 16th century. Present Lanka have more persons speaking Simhali than Tamil people. So, Hanumān used popular language (used in Mithilā or Ayodhyā region at that time). For talking with Sītā, he used standard Sanskrit which was link language in that era. Rāvaṇa definitely had different language which could be Tamil. When Hanuman meets her for first time, he thought that if he used standard Sanskrit, Sītā would take him to be spy of Rāvaṇa. Originally she didn't know Tamil or language of Tamilnadu or Simhal (politically then part of Lanka). He has been called knower of 9 grammars which must have included Tamil which was language of Rameshvaram region.
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