Dam Paha Sada Eliya is the Sinhala edition of Purple Moonlight by Balwant Gargi, the Indian Punjabi-language dramatist, theatre director, novelist and short story writer. The Sinhala title means purple moonlight, and the cover carries both the original English title and the author's name in Sinhala and English.
Gargi wrote two semi-autobiographical novels in English and Punjabi, and Purple Moonlight, known in Punjabi as Kashni Vehra, is one of them. The Sinhala cover describes the book as a Punjabi artist's reflection on his life.
The Sinhala translation is by Uditha Alahakoon, a translator whose other Sinhala work includes translations of novels by Paulo Coelho and Mohsin Hamid. This edition is published by Godage Publishers and is written in Sinhala, bringing a Punjabi writer's account of his own life to Sinhala readers.
- Translator: Uditha Alahakoon
- Publisher: Godage Publishers
- Language: Sinhala
- Pages: 200
- ISBN: 9552095301
