A Sinhala-language title from Godage International Publishers, an established Colombo house. The name on the cover is Prema Jayaseeli Kiriella.
The title points to the territory where lay Buddhist practice in Sri Lanka meets the worship of deities — and names Suniyam, one of the gods invoked in that popular religious world, associated in Sinhala tradition with sorcery, protection and the undoing of harm. Devotion of this kind sits alongside Buddhism in everyday island practice rather than apart from it, and it is a subject that Sinhala writers have long treated in print.
The book is written entirely in Sinhala. There is no English text, so it will suit readers who are comfortable in the language: Sri Lankans at home and abroad, students of Sinhala folk religion and ritual, and researchers who read the script and want material published locally rather than in translation.
If you do not read Sinhala, this one will not be usable as a reading copy. For those who do, it is the sort of local-interest title that is straightforward to find in Colombo bookshops and considerably harder to come by elsewhere.
- Author: Prema Jayaseeli Kiriella
- Publisher: Godage International Publishers
- Language: Sinhala
- Pages: 200
- ISBN: 9789553086297
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