The king of Kekilla was never a real ruler of Sri Lanka. He is an invented figure, and the stories told about him all turn on the same thing: a dispute is brought before him, and he hands down a judgement that makes no sense at all. This children's book gathers several of those stories of foolish verdicts.
T.S. Dharmabandu retells the material for young readers. The book is written entirely in Sinhala, with no English text, so it suits children reading in Sinhala at home or at school, families keeping the language alive abroad, and adult learners who want short narrative pieces to work through. Buyers outside Sri Lanka should be clear on that point before ordering.
The publisher is M. D. Gunasena & Co. (Pvt) Ltd of Colombo, a long-established Sinhala and English publishing house whose schoolbooks and children's titles are familiar across the country.
Stories of a comically bad judge belong to a widely shared kind of folk humour, and the Kekilla king is the Sinhala version — a name children recognise long before they can explain who he was. For readers putting together a shelf of Sinhala storybooks for their household, this is one of the standard ones.
- Author: T.S. Dharmabandu
- Publisher: M. D. Gunasena & Co. (Pvt) Ltd
- Language: Sinhala
- ISBN: 9789552100246
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