A Sinhala-language history from Godage International Publishers, written by Prof. Sirimal Ranawella. The title translates as "The History of the Rohana Kingdom" — Rohana, or Ruhuna, being the historic southern division of the island, the country of Magama and Tissamaharama and the seat of power to which Sinhala rulers repeatedly withdrew and from which they returned.
Sirimal Ranawella is a Sri Lankan historian and epigraphist whose scholarly work has centred on the island's inscriptions and their use as historical evidence. Readers who know his editions of Sinhala epigraphy will have a fair sense of the approach he brings to a regional history of this kind.
The text is entirely in Sinhala. There is no English translation or parallel text here, so this is a book for readers who are comfortable reading Sinhala prose — students of Sri Lankan history working in the language, university and school libraries, and readers abroad who keep up their Sinhala reading.
Godage International Publishers is an established Colombo house issuing works in Sinhala and English, with a long list in Sri Lankan history, archaeology and literature.
- Author: Prof. Sirimal Ranawalla
- Publisher: Godage International Publishers
- Language: Sinhala
- Pages: 296
- ISBN: 9789553073488
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