If the famous Ranganatha temple were in Colombo, instead of Tiruchirapalli, India, would Sri Lanka have been a more peaceful place?

Scholars have had various views on that.

The story of how Lord Ranganatha's idol came to lie in Trichy - instead of Sri Lanka - is now being given a modern twist in Tamil Nadu. 

The epics say Lord Ram gifted an idol of Lord Ranganatha to Ravana's brother, Vibhishana, to express his gratitude for helping him win the Lanka war. After the coronation of Ram in Ayodhya, Vibhishana was returning to Sri Lanka and he placed the idol near Trichy. Later, he found he could not move the idol from the spot. 

Devotees believe that Lord Ranganatha refused to leave the spot, where the famous Lord Ranganathaswamy temple in Srirangam now stands. 

What if Vibhishana had taken the Ranganatha idol to Sri Lanka and built a temple there? Would it have changed Sri Lanka's history? Would it have prevented the Tamil unrest that the world witnessed centuries later? 

Chandrika Kumaratunga, former president of the island nation, believed Lord Ranganatha could create peace in Sri Lanka. 

She wanted to build a Ranganatha temple in Colombo, because, she believed, a Hindu temple would pacify the warring Tamils. 

She entrusted the work to famous sculptor V Ganapati Sthapati. 

The work for a colossal idol and sanctum sanctorum started at Ganapati Sthapati's workshop at Mahabalipuram in 1999, and continued till the end of 2005, when Chandrika Kumaratunga's term ended. Mahinda Rajapaksa succeeded her as president. 

The idol and the carved stone pieces for the sanctum sanctorum had been completed by then. But they still lie in Ganapati Sthapati's workshop, unclaimed by the Sri Lankan government. 
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