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  • Calligraphy under the Deccan sultanates 
    Rajput, A. A. U. (Centre for Heritage Studies, University of Kelaniya, Kelaniya, Sri Lanka., 2019)
    Muslims entertained a very high regard for the Holy Qur’an. They paid special attention not only to its recitation but were meticulously careful about its script. They lavished as much care as they could to everything that ...
  • A Case of Anthrax in Wild Elephant from Western Ghats Region of Tamil Nadu, India 
    Manoharan, N.S.; Senthilkumar, K.; Jayathangaraj, M.G. (Centre for Asian Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
    All mammalian species including human being is virtually affected by highly contagious zoonotic disease called Anthrax. Anthrax is caused by Bacillus anthracis, a Gram-positive, non-motile sporulating rod bacterium. Although ...
  • A Case Report: the Coastal Vedda Community Trapped in the Civil War in Sri Lanka 
    Ranaweera, L. (University of Kelaniya, 2015)
    Sri Lanka is a small island in the Indian Ocean, located close to the southern tip of the mainland India. Easy accessibility to the island from all the parts might leads to heterogeneous social composition, which is reflected ...
  • Categories of ancient Social Groups revealed by Batticaloa Brahmi Inscriptions 
    Gowry, P. (Staff Development Center, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2015)
    Background of the study: The history of Batticaloa remains a closed chapter on the annals of Sri Lankan history. The discovery of majority of Brahmi Inscriptions in the archaeological researches undertaken by Prof.S.Paranavitana ...
  • Causes for the Rude Behavior of Elephants in and around the Yala National Park: Block-1 
    Isthikar, M.A.M. (Centre for Asian Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
    Sri Lankan elephants (elphahasmaximusmaximus) need free natural habitats for their natural way of life. Innocent elephants have adopted rude behaviour as their self defence mechanism because of unethical human practices.The ...
  • Celebrating Tenfold Virtue: An analysis of celebration of virtue in Jainism 
    Jain, V.; Maurya, A. (Centre for Asian Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2017)
    Das Lakshan Parva alias Paryushan is a ten day long festival celebrated annually by the Digamber Jains for self-purification and uplift. Das Lakshan means ten virtues which are the bed – rock of Jain ethics. The festival ...
  • Chained and Unchanged Elephants 
    de Zoysa, A. (Centre for Asian Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
    The elephant is seen in some mid 18th to 20th century murals as the chief protagonist in Jātakas or as a mode of transport in processions. The caparisoning an elephant usually demonstrates that he is domesticated. The ...
  • Challenges Faced by the Asian Elephants from Religious and Cultural Aspects of Contemporary Sri Lankan Society, Importance of Awareness and the Role of Law 
    Jayaweera, K.D.S.S. (Centre for Asian Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
    The purpose of this paper is to identify the threats posed to the elephants from the conservative religious and cultural affairs of Sri Lanka and to formulate a viable solution for the conversion of conservative mindset ...
  • Challenges Facing Preservation and Conservation of Asian Elephants 
    Abeysinghe, A. (Centre for Asian Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
    Asian Elephants face near extinction in every place they exist; they lose their struggle for survival due to human-elephant conflicts, lack of food and water for survival, ivory poaching and illegal capture of them for ...
  • “Chang”: Elephant Conceptual Metaphor in Thai 
    Oupra, S. (Centre for Asian Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
    This paper presents preliminary findings on the use of the word “Chang” or elephant in Thai society. The research was conducted using document study and focus group interviews including questionnaires. The results reveal ...
  • Characteristics of Asian Elephants from Ancient Sanskrit Texts 
    Godbole, M.; Sumant, S. (Centre for Asian Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
    Elephants have been the center of discussion in the ancient Sanskrit veterinary texts such as Hastyāurveda and Mātaṅgalīlā. These texts focus on diseases of elephants and their cure. Texts such as Mṛgapakṣiśāstra, is a ...
  • Characterization of the Temperate Phage vB_RleM_PPF1 and its Site-Specific Integration into the Genome of Rhizobium leguminosarum Strain F1 
    Halmillawewa, A.P.; Restrepo-Córdoba, M.; Perry, B.J.; Yost, C.K.; Hynes, M.F. (Staff Development Center, University of Kelaniya, 2015)
    The presence of prophages in a genome can contribute in increasing the bacterial fitness and ecological success in an environment that contains closely related phages. The temperate phage PPF1 was isolated from a lysogenized ...
  • Chess and other board games as South Asian soft power: A 4000-year old tradition 
    Raghavan, Raamesh Gowri; Kamath, Dnyaneshwari; Dalal, Kurush F. (Centre for Heritage Studies, University of Kelaniya, Kelaniya, Sri Lanka., 2019)
    “It may or may not be true what they say about the devil having all the best tunes, but there can be no doubt that the people of Asia have all the best games. What's more, they seem to have had them longer than anyone else, ...
  • Chumadutangi (Load Bearing Stone) and Pedestrian Transportation in Kerala, India 
    Sasidharan, A.G. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    Chumadutangi (Load Bearing Stone) is a bulky stone bench like structure used for supporting the weight of head loads while transporting from one place to another. They were constructed for the comfort of the pedestrian ...
  • The City of Prayer and Pilgrimage in Circle 
    Horiuchi, M. (University of Kelaniya, 2015)
    Many years ago, when I studied at BHU (Banaras Hindu University) in Varanasi, I used to be woken up in the morning by the sound of prayer voices from nearby temples, and also used to see the streets lined with many buses ...
  • Classification of the Stupas 
    Prasad, P.; Prasad, S.K.K. (Centre for Asian Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2017)
    Out of the primary ten Buddhist stupas, eight were built over the Buddha's relics, and one over the ashes of the funeral pyre and another over the vessal, that was used for distributing the relics. Thus total ten stupas ...
  • Clinical reasoning and its challenges at workplace: A qualitative study with novice medical graduates in Sri Lanka 
    Karunaratne, W.C.D.; Chandratilake, M.B.N.; Marambe, K. (Staff Development Center, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2015)
    Background and rationale: Clinical reasoning is a major determinant of clinical competence among medical professionals (Barrows & Feltovich, 1987). However, even after 40 years of research, diverging opinions still persist ...
  • The Close Relationship between the Tusker and Buddhism 
    Bandara, D.J.M.R.V. (Centre for Asian Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
    Asian elephants are long-lived mammals who live for sixty years. They are highly intelligent and also extremely sociable and stay in groups. These mammals have a close relationship with humans for over centuries serving ...
  • Clown, Servant and God. Popular Expressions of the Divine in Javanese Shadow Theatre 
    Franke, E. (University of Kelaniya, 2015)
    Semar is one of the most important figures of the Javanese shadow theatre, Wayang. He is the most venerable of the Punakawan, the clowns and servants who function as intermediaries between the world of gods and men. How ...
  • The Clues on the Silk Road in the Pali Cannon, the Commentaries and the Chronicles 
    Kumara, V; Ven.Nanda, S. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    The importance of the Pali Canonical and Commentarial literatures cannot be narrowed to the religious teachings only. It, indeed, incorporates the essential information that gives light on the other subjects such as culture, ...

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