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  • Madusanka, N.M.A.N.; Wijayasinghe, U.L.D.A.M. (Centre for Asian Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
    Cinema can be considered as a medium of re-creation of motion. Not only the art but also the industry have inculcated in this medium of cinema. The film illuminates a certain kind of culture and it questions that culture ...
  • Condra, R. (Centre for Asian Studies, University of Kelaniya, 2015)
    The growth of Indian cinema and its messages under British colonial rule significantly parallel the political and societal atmosphere of the country of the time thus asserting it historical and cultural identity. Certainly, ...
  • Wijayawimala, S.; Kumarasinghe, G.U. (University of Kelaniya, 2015)
    Pāli Sandesas are very valuable in Pāli literature as historical records. They are popular in Sanskrit and Sinhala literature as poetic epistle. Although those Sandesas called as messengers’ poems they were not real messages ...
  • Vijitha Thero, Moragaswewe (University of Kelaniya, 2015)
    The Sri Lankans have acquired one of the greatest heritages in the world with the introduction of Buddhism. It gives expression to our nation in our manner of living, of thinking, in art, religion, ethical aspirations, and ...
  • Ray, D. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    Discovery of the wheel in the late Neolithic followed by the use of spoke wheel in carts in the second half of the 4th Millennium BCE in Mesopotamia or specifically in the Sumerian Civilization initiated the journey of ...
  • Vasantha, R.S. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    Terracotta toy cart frames and wheels provide indirect evidence for the origin and development of wheeled carts based transportation in the alluvial plains of Pakistan and western India around 3500 BC. Evidences from various ...
  • Yegnaswamy, J. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    Wheel is defined as a tangible circular object revolves on an axis, and while fixed beneath a vehicle enables it to move over the land. The earliest wheel in history is the potter’s wheel (c. 500 BCE), and when its horizontal ...
  • Bandyopadhyay, N. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    Freight and people movement have been important factors for economic systems from ancient times to the modern globalized world. Utilizing available technology and resources initially with land animalsand wind for maritime ...
  • Dissanayake, D. M. K. G. K.; Sri Shan, G. A. A. N.; Wijayarathna, W. K. M. (Centre for Heritage Studies, University of Kelaniya, Kelaniya, Sri Lanka., 2019)
    Wijewardena family can trace its ancestry back, with a degree of accuracy to the 15th Century, where the Tudugala Wijewardena family has established roots as a ‘Disava’ to King Parakramabahu VI who was the last king to ...
  • Chavan, S.M. (Centre for Asian Studies, University of Kelaniya, 2015)
    Yantra, defined as a ‘mystic energy diagram’, is a simple composition of lines, triangles, squares, circles, lotus petals, a trident and with a dot of seed syllable in the centre. Amongst the numerous thinker saints of ...
  • Jain, N.K. (Centre for Asian Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2017)
    Vedic and Śramaņa these are two main trends in Indian culture. Śramaņic trends covers the two main religions Jainism and Buddhism. Both have much in common in their ethical outlook and moral fervor. Etymologically Śramana ...

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