A Sinhala-language account of twelve national heroes of Sri Lanka, written by P.M. Senarathna. The figures covered include Ven. Wariyapola Sri Sumangala Thera and Ven. Hikkaduwe Sri Sumangala Thera, two names that recur wherever the history of resistance and religious revival under colonial rule is taught.
Please note that the entire text is in Sinhala. There is no English in the book, so it will suit readers who are comfortable reading Sinhala prose, or households teaching the language to children. The publisher presents it as a work of use to schoolchildren, which gives a fair indication of the register: short biographical treatments rather than extended scholarly argument.
Books of this kind do steady work in Sri Lankan homes and school libraries, where figures such as the Wariyapola and Hikkaduwe monks are familiar by name long before a child encounters the detail of what they actually did. Senarathna's volume gathers those lives together in one place.
M.D. Gunasena & Co. is a long-established Colombo publishing house and bookseller, with a list that includes Sinhala educational and general-interest titles.
- Author: P.M. Senarathna
- Publisher: M. D. Gunasena & Co. (Pvt) Ltd
- Language: Sinhala
- ISBN: 9789552126994
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