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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