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Item A Study on Linguistic and Literary Characteristics of Sanskrit Language arising from the Buthsarana(Department of Sanskrit, University of Kelaniya, Kelaniya, 2016) Gamage, M.Buthsarana composed by vidyachakravarthi during the polonnaruwa era could be identified as a literary and a religious text. When examining the contents of Buthsarana it appears that the objective of the writer was to generate Buddhist religious devotion with the reader while panegyrizing the nine fold righteous virtues of Lord Buddha. But it is conspicuous from Buthsarana that it describes the Sanskrit linguistic literature that dominated during the Polonnaruwa era. It is obvious that Sanskrit language and the poetic tradition had influenced Buthsarana linguistically and literally. Objective of this research is to conduct a study on above factors. Certain other works can also be noted that reveals the manner of the Sanskrit influence was acquired by Sinhala literature during the Polonnaruwa era. Among them, the text adapted for this research is Buthsarana. This is a research conducted in association of primary and secondary sources. The text Buthsarana as primary sources and critical ideas of post classical experts and Sanskrit language and literature texts will be associated as secondary sources. Main expectation from this comparative study, a fresh aggregation of knowledge could be contributed regarding Sanskrit language, literature and above the manner in which Buthsarana acquired its influence.Item A study on micro-verb phrases, quasi-verbs and compound verbs in middle Sinhalese language era with reference to the classical Sinhalese literary text "Buthsarana"(Faculty of Humanities, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Weerawardhana, V.Historical linguistic studies are based on ancient written records. Sinhalese language is rich in two fold varieties of written records, namely, rock inscriptions and classical literary texts. Based on the linguistic and structural changes, Sinhalese language is classified into four major periods as Sinhalese prakrit era, Old Sinhalese language era, middle Sinhalese language era and modern Sinhalese era. In the middle Sinhalese era (8c AD- 13 c. AD) "Buthsarana" written by Vidya Chakravarthi is considered a significant literary text due to its language style and creativity. This study explores variations of special categories of verb system identified as micro verb phrases, quasai verbs and compound verbs in middle Sinhalese language era. The study is multidisciplinary as it employs the theories of historical linguistics, structural linguistics and traditional grammatical theories as methodology. Data were collected manually and analysis was done by applying morphology as a principal structural linguistic theory. Micro verb phrases are a grammatical category that consists of two verb roots. A base and a subsidiary root which help to expand the meaning of the base and emerges as a single semantic unit. Three major patterns can be analyzed regarding these phrases. Quasai verbs are the defective verbs with a limited paradigm. Compound verbs are formed by joining a noun stem and verb root a together. Noun stem and verb root are interlocked and occur in the language as a single unit. Limited compound verbs are found in Buthsarana. Findings of this research benefit both linguists and the researchers interested in language studies.