A classical Sinhala sandesha kavya presented with its sanna — the traditional prose gloss that unpacks the verse line by line for readers who want help with older poetic diction. The sandesha, or messenger poem, is one of the established forms of classical Sinhala verse, in which a bird is despatched on a journey and the poet describes what it passes along the way.
The text is edited and prepared by K. Sri Sumedha Maha Thero and issued by Godage International Publishers, a Colombo house that publishes across Sinhala literature, scholarship and religion.
The book is entirely in Sinhala, both the verse and the accompanying gloss, and it is set in Sinhala script throughout. There is no English translation or parallel text, so it will be of use only to readers who can read Sinhala.
It suits students working through classical Sinhala poetry, teachers preparing verse for class, and readers abroad who keep up their Sinhala and want the older poems in an edition that explains the language as it goes. Buyers building a shelf of the classical sandesha poems will want it alongside the others in the group.
- Author: K. Sri Sumedha Maha Thero
- Publisher: Godage International Publishers
- Language: Sinhala
- Pages: 96
- ISBN: 9789553067081
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