A Sinhala-language handbook on wasthu widya — the traditional science of building — written for people planning and putting up a house. The premise is straightforward: when a house is built according to wasthu principles, the faults that can otherwise attach to a dwelling are avoided. The book sets out to guide the reader through that.
Rathna Deshapriya Amarasuriya writes with two readerships in mind. The first is the ordinary householder building a new home, who wants to know what the tradition asks of a site and a structure before the work begins. The second is the student taking up wasthu as a subject of study. The material is pitched to serve both.
The text is entirely in Sinhala, with no English translation, so buyers outside Sri Lanka should be comfortable reading Sinhala before ordering. The publisher is M. D. Gunasena & Co., an established Colombo house with a long presence in Sinhala-language publishing.
Of interest to readers building in Sri Lanka, to those studying traditional Sinhala building practice, and to anyone collecting Sinhala works on the subject.
- Author: Rathna Deshapriya Amarasuriya
- Publisher: M. D. Gunasena & Co. (Pvt) Ltd
- Language: Sinhala
- ISBN: 9789552119668
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