This is a Sinhala-language retelling of the Panchatantra by Hemapala Munidasa, published in Colombo by M. D. Gunasena & Co. The text is entirely in Sinhala, with no English translation, so it will suit readers who read the language or households keeping Sinhala books for children growing up abroad.
The Panchatantra goes back to Vishnu Sharman, a scholar of ancient India, whose discourses set out how a person might build good character and a sound personality. That teaching is the material Munidasa works from here, carried in the story form the collection has always used.
Munidasa is a familiar name on Sinhala bookshelves, and M. D. Gunasena is a long-established Colombo publishing house issuing books in Sinhala and English. For buyers outside Sri Lanka, this is the kind of title that circulates widely at home but is harder to find elsewhere — a standard Sinhala edition of a story cycle that has travelled through many languages and many centuries.
- Author: Hemapala Munidasa
- Publisher: M. D. Gunasena & Co. (Pvt) Ltd
- Language: Sinhala
- ISBN: 9789552102196
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