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  2. Sri Lankan literature - Wikipedia

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    Sri Lankan literature is the literary tradition of Sri Lanka. The largest part of Sri Lankan literature was written in the Sinhala language, but there is a considerable number of works in other languages used in Sri Lanka over the millennia (including Tamil, Pāli, and English). However, the languages used in ancient times were very different ...

  3. South Asian literature - Wikipedia

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    South Asian literature has a long history, having some of the oldest recorded pieces of literature, dating back to the later stages of the Bronze Age in India.Transmitted in Sanskrit, Rig veda is an ancient and sacred collection of Hindu texts originally composed between 1500 BCE and 1200 BCE by Indo-Aryan tribes that were migrating from modern Afghanistan to northern India. [3]

  4. Philippine literature - Wikipedia

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    [1] [2] Philippine literature encompasses literary media written in various local languages as well as in Spanish and English. According to journalist Nena Jimenez, the most common and consistent element of Philippine literature is its short and quick yet highly interpersonal sentences, with themes of family, dogmatic love, and persistence. [3]

  5. National Library of the Philippines - Wikipedia

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    The Philippine Commission formalized the acceptance of the ACL's collections on March 5, 1901, through Act No. 96, [4] today observed as the birthdate of both the National Library and the Philippine public library system. [2] With the ACL now a Philippine government institution, a board of trustees and three personnel, led by librarian Nelly Y ...

  6. State Literary Award (Sri Lanka) - Wikipedia

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    The State Literary Award is a set of annual literary prizes by the Government of Sri Lanka under several categories. The awards cover fiction , poetry , translations , songs and cover designs. Works from Sinhala , Tamil and English language are reviewed.

  7. Sri Lankan Tamil literature - Wikipedia

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    The earliest extant Sri Lankan Tamil literature survives from the academies of the Sangam age dated from 200 BCE. [2] Īḻattup pūtaṉtēvaṉār was one of the earliest known native classical Eelam Tamil poets from the Sangam period, hailing from Manthai, Mannar District, Sri Lanka. [3]

  8. Philippine folk literature - Wikipedia

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    Philippine folk literature refers to the traditional oral literature of the Filipino people. Thus, the scope of the field covers the ancient folk literature of the Philippines' various ethnic groups , as well as various pieces of folklore that have evolved since the Philippines became a single ethno-political unit.

  9. Dīpavaṃsa - Wikipedia

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    The eldest was Vijaya and the second was Sumitta. As Vijaya was of cruel and unseemly conduct, the enraged people requested the king to kill his son. But the king caused him and his seven hundred followers to leave the kingdom, and they landed in Sri Lanka, at a place called Tamba-panni, on the exact day when the Buddha passed into Maha ...