Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
A Poruwa ceremony is a traditional Sinhalese wedding ceremony. The ceremony takes place on a "Poruwa", a beautifully decorated, traditional wooden platform. The ceremony involves a series of rituals performed by the bride and groom, and their families.
Sri Piyaratana Tissa Mahanayake Thero (Sinhala: දොඩන්දුවේ ශ්රි පියරත්න තිස්ස මහ නායක ස්වාමින් වහන්සේ; 12 December 1826 – 20 May 1907), also known as Dodanduwa Piyaratne Thero, was the Mahanayaka Thero of the Amarapura Nikaya (circa 1860s), and the Sanganayake of the Southern Province.
Traditional wedding ceremonies. The River House in Sri Lanka offers a package (aimed at tourists) who want to conduct what is described as a "traditional wedding ceremony". It incorporates several elements of traditional weddings in Sinhalese culture such as poruwa and Kandyan dancers. [109]
Tamil people wears traditional Tamil wedding dresses and they replace poruwa ceremony with traditional Hindu wedding ceremony. Burgher people wears western traditional dresses and they marry in church as in popular western culture. Sri Lankan Moors celebrates the wedding with added Islam customs.
Hēna, also Radā, is a minority Sinhalese caste. "Rajas" means dirt in Sinhala and Pali or Sanskrit and "Rajaka" means the removers of dirt. They collected cloths by traveling home to home of higher castes but now that was obsolete in Sri Lanka.but still they performs several rituals in the weddings and the females of this caste performs vital role in the puberty rituals of Radala and ...
Conganige Madhavee Wathsala Anthony (born 6 August 1988; Sinhala: මාධවී වත්සලා ඇන්තනී), popularly as Madhavee Wathsala, is an actress in Sri Lankan cinema. [1] Started as a child artist through the popular television musical show Hapan Padura , Madhavee is also excelled her career as a singer, dancer, model and ...
The foundations of the Magul Maduwa where the wedding ceremony occurred can still be seen at the temple premises. [4] Magul is a word in native Sinhala language which gives the meaning wedding or auspicious. Magul Maha Vihara had been renovated by several monarchs after its establishment.
The Sinhala Baila song Pissu Vikare (Dagena Polkatu Male) by H. R. Jothipala, Milton Perera, M. S. Fernando is a cover version of the Tamil song Dingiri Dingale (Meenachi) from the 1958 Tamil film Anbu Engey. And it was covered again in Sinhala as a folk song named Digisi/Digiri Digare (Kussiye Badu).