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  • Vaprakrīḍā: A Playful Butting of Elephants 
    Prabhudesai, A. (Centre for Asian Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
    ‘Vaprakrīḍā’ is the word used in ancient Sanskrit literature for the playful butting of elephants against mounds. ‘Vaprakriyā’ or ‘Utkhātakeli’ are the other words used for the same act. Kalidāsa’s Raghuvaṁśam and Meghadūtam ...
  • Vernacular Architecture of Sri Lanka as a Means of Communication 
    Widyalankara, A. (University of Kelaniya, 2015)
    Meeting the basic human need for shelter and protection is the primary purpose of built space. In addition to shelter, the spatial allocation in vernacular architecture is relied upon as a means of conveying ‘information’. ...
  • Vintage cars a luxury in British Raj: a case study of different museum and private collections 
    Ahmad, A.; Kumar, A. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    Transport is a part of our day to day lives, and in seeing cars, everyone feels a connection and pride in owning it. In India the first car ran on roads in 1897. Prior to independence in the 1940s India had no automobile ...
  • Virtual Users in Social Networks and their Involvement in Religious Perception: a Case Study on Undergraduates of University of Kelaniya 
    Dilinika, J.M.S. (University of Kelaniya, 2015)
    Social network is one of the most used communication media between people in nowadays. Human beings are influenced social networks through attitudes, behaviors, and social norms. Alternatively referred to as a virtual ...
  • The Way the Elephant's Image is used in Local and Foreign Cinema (Based on Somarathna Disanayaka's Film "Bindu" and M.A Thirumugam's Film "Hathi Mere Sathi") 
    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 ...
  • West-orient Memsaabs of Indian Films in Colonial period: The history, heritage and hegemony 
    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, ...
  • What is the Practical Value of Pāli sandesa? 
    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 ...
  • What is the Sri Lankan Buddhist Heritage? 
    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 ...
  • Wheel to Wheel less Locomotives—Revolutionary discoveries, heritage and its exposition in Museum: A Case Study 
    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 ...
  • Wheeled Vehicle Toys of the Indus Civilization with Special Reference to Gujarat, India 
    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 ...
  • ‘Wheel’ – The Basis of Movement In the Context of Indian Culture, Thought and Art 
    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 ...
  • When have you shed tears for them? 
    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 ...
  • Wijewardena family:Foundation of a long-lasting political family in Sri Lanka 
    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 ...
  • Yantras of Shankara and their influence on Indian Tantric Artists Wwith reference to G.R. Santosh and K.V. Haridasan 
    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 ...
  • Yoga in śramaņa tradition 
    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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