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A City Named in Sanskrit for an Animal That Was Never There

He threw his crown into the sea to survive a storm, landed on an island, saw an animal he was told was a lion, and gave the place a Sanskrit name.

There have never been lions on Singapore. The name means lion city. It is Sanskrit, and it has lasted seven hundred years.

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