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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. Hela Havula - Wikipedia

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   By the beginning of the 1960s, the Hela Hawula was the strongest force in the country in terms of the Sinhala language and literature. [11] At that time the 'Hela Havula' had branches not only in Ahangama, Unawatuna, Rathgama, Galle, Kalutara and Kandy but also in schools such as Mahinda College in Galle and S. Thomas' College, Mount Lavinia .

4. D. S. Jayasekera - Wikipedia

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   Marcandan in a letter to a newspaper refers to R. D. Gunaratne, Uthum Herat, Russell de Mel, Duleep Goonewardena and Devaka Fernando as students who would have made Mr Jayasekera proud [4] He ran the school stationery store referred to as the 'book cupboard' which he ran with the assistance of students among whom were Kesaralal Gunasekara ...

5. Saman Tilakasiri - Wikipedia

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   Won national awards including Presidential Award and UNICEF Book Competition for "Year of the Child 1979". Children's books by Saman Tilakasiri have become classic contributions to the Sri Lankan and Sinhala literature due to their unique story-telling style that combines conversational and lyrical poetic expression to tell a story which is ...

6. Perimeter - Wikipedia

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   Perimeter is the distance around a two dimensional shape, a measurement of the distance around something; the length of the boundary. A perimeter is a closed path that encompasses, surrounds, or outlines either a two dimensional shape or a one-dimensional length. The perimeter of a circle or an ellipse is called its circumference.

7. Lakdhas Wikkrama Sinha - Wikipedia

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   Wikkramasinha became an English teacher. His interest in Sinhala literature led him to experiment with methods of fusing Western and South Asian traditions in his writing. Wikkrama Sinha's first book of verse, Lustre: Poems (Kandy, 1965 ), was written entirely in English.

8. Parakramabahu II - Wikipedia

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   Parakramabahu II's reign is regarded as a golden age of Sinhalese literature, and Parakramabahu himself too was a patron in poetry and literature. He was popularly known as 'Kalikāla Sāhitya Sarvagna Paṇḍitha' or 'Panditha Parakramabahu'. [ 2 ]

9. Guththila Kawya - Wikipedia

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   Guththila Kawya (Sinhala: ගුත්තිල කාව්‍ය, Anglicized: Guttila Kāvya) is a book of poetry written in the period of the Kingdom of Kotte (1412-1597) by Weththewe Thero. [1] The book is based on a story of previous birth of Gautama Buddha mentioned on Guththila Jataka in Jataka tales of Gautama Buddha. Guththila kawya ...