A Sinhala poem on Sri Lankan history, edited by Ven. Labugama Lankananda himi and issued in Colombo by Godage International Publishers. The National Library of Sri Lanka catalogues the work under two headings — Sri Lankan history and Sinhalese poetry — which places it among the verse texts read both as literature and as historical material.
The text is in Sinhala throughout, in Sinhala script. There is no English translation or parallel text, so a reader will need to be able to read Sinhala to use it. Buyers ordering from outside Sri Lanka should take that as the first thing to settle before anything else about the book matters.
The volume carries Ven. Labugama Lankananda's name as editor rather than as author.
Godage International Publishers is an established Colombo house publishing in Sinhala and in English, with a long list in Sri Lankan history, literature, religion and classical texts. Much of what they print — including editions of older Sinhala works — is produced for readers and students in Sri Lanka, and copies of individual titles are not always easy to come by abroad.
This will suit readers of Sinhala with an interest in classical and historical verse, students of Sinhala literature, and those building a shelf of edited texts on Sri Lankan history. It is a reading edition of a Sinhala poem, and it asks of its reader only the language it is written in.
- Author: Ven.Labugama Lankananda himi
- Publisher: Godage International Publishers
- Language: Sinhala
- Pages: 232
- ISBN: 9789553098313
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