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The main concrete dam measures approximately 350 m (1,150 ft) and creates the Rajanganaya Reservoir, which has a catchment area of 76,863.60 hectares (189,934.1 acres) and a total storage capacity of 100.37 million cubic metres (3,545 × 10 ^ 6 cu ft).
The Sinhala script (Sinhala: සිංහල අක්ෂර මාලාව, romanized: Siṁhala Akṣara Mālāwa), also known as Sinhalese script, is a writing system used by the Sinhalese people and most Sri Lankans in Sri Lanka and elsewhere to write the Sinhala language as well as the liturgical languages Pali and Sanskrit. [3]
The Telugu–Kannada script (or Kannada–Telugu script) was a writing system used in Southern India. Despite some significant differences, the scripts used for the Telugu and Kannada languages remain quite similar and highly mutually intelligible. Satavahanas and Chalukyas influenced the similarities between Telugu and Kannada scripts. [3]
Kadamba-Pallava script [17] evolved into early forms of Kannada and Telugu scripts. Glyphs become more rounded and incorporate loops because of writing upon leaves and paper. [17] The script is not yet a part of Unicode but proposals have been made to include it. In 2018, Anshuman Pandey made a proposal. [18]
The North Central province is home to the ancient cities of Anuradhapura and Polonnaruwa, both of which were historical capitals of Sri Lanka during ancient times. The two cities were the capitals of the Anuradhapura kingdom (437 BCE–1017 CE) and the Polonnaruwa kingdom (1070–1232) respectively.
This Kalinga Brahmi is prevalent in the Kalinga region, whose language and writing style is different from that of other Brahmi. The Odia and Telugu scripts created from Kalinga Brahmi, which are slightly different from the Maurya Brahmi script, were almost identical to those of Kalinga ruler Kharvel, Satrubhanja to Mathara. Later, autonomy ...
Papineni Sivasankar; Potturi Vijayalakshmi; Potana Bammera; P. Lalita Kumari (Volga) Perugu Ramakrishna; Puranam Subrahmanya Sarma; Panuganti (Bullet) Rajaram Madhurantakam
Kala Wewa (Sinhala:කලා වැව), built by the King Datusena in 460 CE, is a reservoir complex consisting of two reservoirs, Kala Wewa and Balalu Wewa. It has the capacity to store 123 million cubic meters of water.