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Item 1818 ජාතික නිදහස් අරගලයේ පුරෝගාමියෝ (Pioneers of the first independent struggle 1818)(2010) Manatunga, Bandara; Manatunga, AnuraItem Abstract volume of the Ananda Coomaraswamy memorial conference on Asia Art and Culture(Centre of Asian Studies, University of Kelaniya, 2012) Manatunga, AnuraItem Ajanta and Sigiriya: A comparative study into mural paintings(Centre of Archaeology, Centre for Extra Mural Studies, University of Mumbai, 2015) Manatunga, AnuraItem An Interpretation into the Ambiguous Jina-patisatariya in the Inscriptions of the middle Anuradhapura Period(Proceedings of Annual Research Symposium, Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya, 2005) Manatunga, AnuraAn ambiguous word, Jinapatisatariya or its variants have occurred in a series of similar inscriptions found from Buddhist monasteries in the middle Anuradhapura period, i.e circa 2nd - 5th centuries A.C. All these inscriptions have been certainly referred to a grant or grants made to Buddhist monasteries for a particular purpose, but this purpose has not been properly identified in spite of some possible interpretations on it. D.M. de Z. Wickramasinghe has interpreted this word as having the meaning of ‘repairing of dilapidated buildings’ and understood the grants as made for that purpose. Gaiger believed that it was a ritual associated with the Buddha’s ‘Pati Dhatu’, the belt or a piece of cloth belonging to the cheevara of the Lord Buddha. Paranavitana interpreted Jinapatisatariya as the ‘spreading of deer skins’ in Buddhists monasteries, which he believed as a sacred ritual performed in these monasteries. In spite of the previous interpretations, the present study shows that the meaning of the Jinapatisatariya is the performance of the Vinayakamma known as ‘ Patisãraniyakamma’ by the Buddhist Sanga in Uposathagaras in the monasteries. ‘Jina’ in this case can be a derivation of Cinna ( Cinna-Jinna-Jina) which means ‘performed’, ‘practiced’, ‘accomplished’, ‘done’ and so on. Patisaraniyakamma referred to in the Vinaya literature can be easily identified with Patisaraniya or Patisaraniyakamma in the inscriptions. This Vinayakamma was a kind of action taken against a monk who attempted to cause a damage or a loss to a householder. The guilty monk had to make presents to the Sanga before he is interrogated for his offence by the body of Sanga. This shows why such grants were needed for this performance. It may well be ceremoniously performed in the monasteries in Anuradhapura and elsewhere in ancient Sri Lanka where these inscriptions are found.Item An Interpretation of the Buddha Statues at Galvihare, Polonnaruva(SAARCInternational Conference on ARCHAEOLOGY OF BUDDHISM, Recent Discoveries in South Asia, Colombo, 2012) Manatunga, AnuraItem An Interpretation of the so-called Proto - Siva Seal from Mohenjodaro(Studies in the Decipherment of the Harappan Script and Harappan Seals, Colombo: Archaeo-Documentation, 1988) Manatunga, AnuraItem Asian Art, Culture and Heritage(Centre of Asian Studies, University of Kelaniya, 2013) Manatunga, AnuraItem Beads beyond personal ornamentation: An understanding of beads found in Buddhist monastic contexts(Paper presented at the 2nd International Congress of the Society of South Asian Archaeology (SOSAA), Shiraz, Iran, 2008) Manatunga, AnuraItem Item Buddhism in Gujarat: Some supplementary Evidences from Sri Lankan Sources(International Seminar on Buddhist Heritage, Gujarat, 2010) Manatunga, AnuraItem Buddhist Epistemology and Archaeological Reasoning(1999) Manatunga, AnuraItem Buddhist Stupas at Anuradhapura: An Investigation into the Early Archaeological Activities(2008) Manatunga, AnuraItem Cereal Cultivation in the Horton Plains: Prehistoric or Later Historic?(Retrospect, 2006) Manatunga, AnuraItem The Chola invasion of Sri Vijaya: was it a misunderstanding of an invasion to Southern Sri Lanka?(Jawaharlal Nehru University, 2008) Manatunga, AnuraItem Cunningham and Dharmapala: A comparative study of the two approaches to Buddhist sites in Sri Lanka(Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, 2014) Manatunga, AnuraItem Elements of Buddhism in Early Historic Sites of Rajasthan, India(Centre for Asian Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2017) Dibyopama, A.; Manatunga, AnuraItem Excavations at the World Heritage City at Polonnaruva, Sri Lanka(Abhijnan: Felicitating A.K.M. Zakariah, BAR International Series, 2009) Manatunga, AnuraItem An extension to Nur Yalman’s Under the Bo Tree: A Survey into Diaries of Mr. KB Nissanka, School Head Master of ‘Terutenne’(Centre for Asian Studies, University of Kelaniya, 2015) Manatunga, AnuraUnder the Bo Tree by Nur Yalman has been considered one of the best socio-anthropological books on Sri Lanka. It is mainly based on field studies conducted in a Kandyan Village, ‘Terutenne’, for his PhD at Cambridge under the supervision of Edmund Leach from 1954 to 1956. The book was published in 1967 by the University of California Press and popularized among academics as a prescriptive text on the Sinhalese society. ‘Terutenne’ is a fictional name coined by Yalman for Teripehe, a remote village in the Walapane Division of Nuwara Eliya District. The focus of his study was on caste, kinship and marriage in the Kandyan Sinhalese village in Sri Lanka. The present research is an extension of Yalman’s study through analysing diaries of late Mr. KB Nissanka who was a native of the village and the Head Master of the school when Yalman conducted his research. Nissanka and his family have been widely referred to in Yalman’s book and they have met each other on several occasions including some of the important family functions at home. Mr. Nissanka was born in 1908 in Teripehe and died in 1991 in the same village. He was the Head Master and Principal of the Teripehe School for over two decades and later was promoted as the School Inspector of the region. He retired in 1968 and continued his service as a member of the Village Council and functioned in various other capacities which were integral to the life and society of ‘Terutenne’. He was a regular diarist from around the 1930s and these diaries are not only a record of his personal life, but also a repository of facts which reflect various aspects of village life and contemporary society in Sri Lanka. An analysis of these diaries is important as a cross reference to Yalman’s claims and is a definite extension of Yalman’s study in terms of time and scope.Item From forest to polity: Veddas as chieftains in medieval Sri Lanka(University of Kelaniya, 2008) Manatunga, Anura