This is a Sinhala-language title, written and printed in Sinhala throughout. There is no English text, so it will suit readers who are comfortable in Sinhala or who are building a Sinhala collection abroad.
The title places it within the author's set of stories gathered under the heading Nuthana Mahadanamuththage Katha — new tales of Mahadenamutta, the sage of Sinhala folk tradition who, with his pupils, has long been the stock figure of comic misjudgement in village storytelling. It is a short book, issued by Godage International Publishers, an established Colombo house that publishes in Sinhala and English.
Harischandra Wijayatunga, born in Minuwangoda in October 1931 and died in November 2025, worked across an unusually wide field. He was an author and translator, a teacher and a lawyer, and he was also a lexicographer: he compiled the Practical Sinhala Dictionary and the Gunasena Great Sinhala Dictionary. He entered politics as well, leading the Motherland People's Party and standing as its candidate in the presidential elections of 1994 and 1999. That combination — a man who spent years fixing the meanings of Sinhala words, then turned to writing stories in it — sits behind the work he published for general and younger readers.
Anyone assembling Sinhala reading for children at home, or following Wijayatunga's output as a writer rather than as a dictionary-maker, will know where this one belongs.
- Author: Harishchandra Wijayathunga
- Publisher: Godage International Publishers
- Language: Sinhala
- Pages: 32
- ISBN: 9786240001021
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