Thursday, March 14, 2019

BOOKS ON MORATUWA BY HEMANTHA SITUGE

Don Martino De Zylwa Wickremasinghe in his Catalogue of the  Sinhalese Printed Books in the library of the British Museum 1901 MORATUGAMA-HATANAYA -A satirical poem against the establishment of the Gam Sabhawa "village tribunal"at Moratuwa, Colombo 1886 catalogued as 14165 .

Dharmmika Upasaka samagama Amurtha Warshawa A Buddhhist Tract issued monthly by the " Dharmmika Upasaka society " 1893

Holy Emmanuel Church Report of the Sunday School in connection with the for 1891 Colombo 1892 pp18 contains the same catalogue number.

 Former Mayor of Moratuwa Jayasumana Dharmabandhu a nephew of that reputed writer T. S. Dhrmabhandhu   ,[ his own brother Ariyadasa's son] wrote Eithihasika  Moratuwa  [History of Moratuwa ] printed at the Guneratne and Co Maradana in 1973 traced the word Moratuwa  from  the Tisara Sandesa kavyaya written in the 13 century.

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