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Item Identifying the clans and the famous cities in Vinaya commentaries 7th B.C.E to the 6rd B.C.E.(14th Annual research symposium, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2013) Manatunga, D.K.Item Kings of the Kelaniya Dynasty: A study in to primary sources(14th International Conference on Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2008) Manatunga, D.K.Kelaniya was one of the centers of power in the early historic Sri Lanka. It has been ruled by a royal family whose origin and decline are still obscure. The present study is an attempt to recognize this royal family with the help of literary and ephigraphical sources. Details given in the Mahawamsa,Vamsattappakasini and other chronicles about Kelaniya and its ruling family will be critically evaluated in this paper. Early Brahmi inscriptions discovered at Koratota, Pilikuththuwa, Varana, Yatahalena and Lenagala are re examined and will be compared with inscriptions found elsewhere for identifying members of the royal family. The rise and fall of the Kelaniya dynasty and its socio-political impact in the state formation in Sri Lanka with the establishment of the Anuradhapura kingdom will be elaborated in this study.Item Kings of the Kelaniya dynasty: a study into primary sources(University of Kelaniya, 2008) Manatunga, D.K.Item Legends on North India 6th B.C.E to the 3rd B.C.E.(Annual research symposium, Legends on North India 6th B.C.E to the 3rd B.C.E. University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2010) Manatunga, D.K.Item A Study on Ivory Craftsmanship in Ancient Sri Lanka: with Special Reference to Anuradhapura and Polonnaruwa periods(4th International Conference on Social Sciences 2018, Research Centre for Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2018) Manatunga, D.K.Sri Lanka is famous for elephants from the ancient period and ivory craftsmanship was also famous in Sri Lanka from the ancient period. Ivory craftsmanship in Sri Lanka has significances from historical, cultural, political and economic aspects. The highpoint of Ivory craftsmanship was the period of Kotte. But according to the literary sources it can be concluded that ivory craftsmanship was conducted since Anuradhapura Period and at that period Buddha statues were created from ivory. Hence, the main objective of this research is to expound the ivory craftsmanship in ancient Sri Lanka with special reference to Anuradhapura and Polonnaruwa periods through the collected data from literature survey method. Therefore, both primary and secondary literary sources were used to collect data. Thus, apart from the main objective this research will explicate about the royal patronage given to the ivory craftsmanship in ancient Sri Lanka. Literary sources reveal the ancient Ivory craftsmanship and the objects created from ivory craftsmanship in ancient Sri LankaItem අට්ඨකථා සාහිත්‍යය ඇසුරින් පැරණි භාරතීය රජපෙළපත් හා නගර හඳුනා ගැනීම (ක්‍රි.පූ. 7 වන සියවස සිට 6 වන සියවස දක්වා)(University of Kelaniya, 2013) Manatunga, D.K.Item අනුරාධපුර යුගයේ ප්‍රාදේශීය පාලන සංවිධාන(University of Kelaniya, 2007) Manatunga, D.K.Item ඉන්දියානු ඉතිහාසය ගොඩනැගීමේදී ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ ශාස්ත්‍රීය මූලාශ්‍රවලින් ලැබෙන පිටිවහල : ක්‍රි.පූ. 6 වන සියවස සිට ක්‍රි.පූ. 4 වන සියවස දක්වා(University of Kelaniya, 2012) Manatunga, D.K.Item ක්‍රි.පූ.හයවන සියවසේ සිට ක්‍රි.පූ.තුන්වන සියවස දක්වා උතුරු ඉන්දියානු රාජ වංශ හා බැඳුනු පුරාවෘත්ත ශ්‍රී ලාංකීය මුලාශ්‍රය ඇසුරින් කල විමර්ශනයකි(Research Symposium 2010 - Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya, 2010) Manatunga, D.K.Item කාවන්තිස්ස රජුගේ කාර්යය සාඵල්‍යය කෙරෙහි අර්ථ ශාස්ත‍්‍රයේ ආභාසය බලපා තිබේද?(Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2015) Harshani, P.G.R.J.N.; Manatunga, D.K.Item මහාවංසයේ මොග්ගල්ලාන සංස්කරණය හෙවත් කාම්බෝජ මහාවංසය පිලිබඳ විමර්ශනයක්(Research Symposium 2009 - Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya, 2009) Manatunga, D.K.Item මෞර්යයන්ගේ දේශපාලන ඉතිහාසය ගොඩනැගීම (ශ්‍රී ලාංකීය මුලාශ්‍රය ඇසුරින්)(12th Annual Research Symposium, University of Kelaniya, 2011) Manatunga, D.K.Item ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ අලි ඇතුන් පිළිබඳ ඓතිහාසික සාධක (අනුරාධපුර යුගය දක්වා)(Centre for Asian Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Manatunga, D.K.Item ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ ඉතිහාසය හා සම්බන්ධ මූලශ්‍රයක් වශයෙන් දිව්‍යාවදානයේ වැදගත්කම(University of Kelaniya, 2008) Manatunga, D.K.Item ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ ප්‍රාදේශීය පාලනය, අනුරාධපුර යුගයේ අවසානය දක්වා(2005) Manatunga, D.K.Item ශී‍්‍ර ලාංකේය චිත‍්‍ර කලාව තුළ ස්තී‍්‍ර නිරූපණය: 20 වන හා 21වන සියවස තුළ වූ නිර්මාණ ඇසුරින්(Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2015) Karunarathne, U.D.P.T.; Manatunga, D.K.