This is a Sinhala-language title, written and printed in Sinhala throughout. Buyers ordering from outside Sri Lanka should know that there is no English text in it, and reading knowledge of Sinhala is needed to use the book.
The author, Ajith Thalwaththa, is a professor in the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities at Rajarata University of Sri Lanka. His academic work has included a study of the origin and evolution of Natha deity worship, Natha Deva Wandanaye Prabhawaya Saha Wikashanaya, which was launched at Rajarata University. That background places him among Sri Lankan scholars writing for a Sinhala readership from within the university system rather than for translation abroad.
The publisher, Godage International Publishers, is an established Colombo house issuing books in Sinhala and English across scholarship, literature and general non-fiction. A great deal of Sri Lankan academic and literary writing reaches readers through Godage imprints, and their Sinhala list is where much of this kind of work is found.
For readers abroad, Sinhala titles of this sort are worth noting because they rarely circulate outside the island. Sri Lankan readers overseas, students of Sinhala, and university and research libraries building Sinhala-language holdings are the people most likely to want a copy on the shelf.
- Author: Ajith Thalwaththa
- Publisher: Godage International Publishers
- Language: Sinhala
- Pages: 320
- ISBN: 9789553075765
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