Prince Vijaya
The story of the arrival of Prince Vijaya in Sri Lanka and the origin of the Sinhalese people is also depicted in the Ajanta caves, in a mural of cave number 17. According to some other sources, because there were four major clans of "hela" in ancient Sri Lanka(hela is another name for Sri Lanka) even before the arrival of Prince Vijaya, Sri Lanka was called as "Siv hela" (siv=four in the Sinhala language) and later it changed into "Sinhala"