http://ir.lib.ruh.ac.lk/handle/iruor/79 2026-04-28T22:21:04Z 2026-04-28T22:21:04Z Weerakkody, Upali http://ir.lib.ruh.ac.lk/handle/iruor/83 2024-11-08T07:07:00Z 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Holocene History of the Koholankala Lagoonal System, Southeast Sri Lanka Weerakkody, Upali The southeast coast, i.e. the coast stretching from Gurupokuna in the west to the Kirindi Oya in the east, stretches over a long and diversified tract of coastal environment. Barriers have formed in front of lagoons that are backed by a hinterland of low planation surfaces carved on Precambrian •.and Palaeozoic rock. Quaternary development of many landfoims in the area is characterized by former bays that have more recently evolved into lagoons when barriers often crowned by dune fields, came into existence. Hence, the geomorphological analysis of these landforms should be based on the analysis of material and geomorphological mapping.

1987-01-01T00:00:00Z Rohana Research Journal http://ir.lib.ruh.ac.lk/handle/iruor/81 2024-11-05T07:57:10Z 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rohana Research Journal: front materials, Vol.2 Rohana Research Journal

1987-01-01T00:00:00Z Vitharana, V. http://ir.lib.ruh.ac.lk/handle/iruor/78 2024-11-08T05:42:56Z 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Sigiri Graffiti Vitharana, V. Sigiriya is one of the best known places in Sri Lanka both to the people of the country and to the foreigners, and there is hardly any of the 4,00,000 annual tourists to the island who does not pay it a visit. Much also has been written about it by historians, archaeologists, local and foreign travellers "a n d visitors in general, and that in more than one language. The walls of the citadel edged by the wide moat, the picturesque path that runs alongside ponds and water-ways, the rock-hewn stair-way (that first zig-zags between high boulders and then along-side rock-seats, caves and platforms to hang for a while in the sky on the side of the dizzy crag and then clings to the near vertical rock-face right up to the summit), the frescoes aqd the mirror-wall beside, the royal palace on the terraced summit, and the breath-taking scenery that meets the eye there-from on all sides have enraptured visitors of 1,500 years ago much as their remains allure the many thousands that are drawn to it during the present times.

1987-01-01T00:00:00Z Ranawella, S. http://ir.lib.ruh.ac.lk/handle/iruor/77 2020-01-21T10:22:15Z 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mayilagastota Pillar Inscription Ranawella, S. This inscription was discovered about 110 years ago by an Irrigation officer named J. H. Dawson. In 1876 P. Goldschmidt published a short account of it with a portion of the text as read by him .1 Seven years later when E. Muller published his Ancient Inscriptions in Ceylon, he included this record therein as No. 120, accompanied by an incomplete and faulty transcript of the record with a translation and a preliminary note.2 About thirty years later D. M. de Z. Wickremasinghe edited it for the first time for the Department of Archaeology in the Epigraphia Zeylanicd, Volume II, pages 57-63. He has made many improvements on Muller’s reading and interpretation, but he also has not correctly read some parts of the text, and has left the whole of side C undeciphered. S. Paranavitana, having read the inscription in full, published a revised edition of this record in 1973 in the Epigraphia Zeylancia Volume VI, pages 30-39. His account of the record as given therein reads as follows: ‘This pillar, which was discovered at Mayilagastota in the Magam Pattu of the H am bantota District, is now preserved in the Colombo Museum. Apart from that part of the pillar which serves as the base and is buried below ground, it stands to a height of 6 ft., including 6 in. taken up by the capital. Faces A and C are on an average 10 in., in breadth, B and D 6 in. Each of the faces A and B has thirty four lines of writing; face C, on which the writing ends, 2 ft. 1 in. from top, has only twelve lines of writing. Parallel lines, boldly incised, separate the lines of writing from one another. The letters vary from l in. to 1|- in. in size, and have been engraved legibly, but not to a considerable depth. A chip, 2 inches in height and an inch in breadth, has been broken away on the left edge of Face A, four inches from the top. The first letter of line 3 has been lost due to this. The writing has been blurred by weathering in some places.

1987-01-01T00:00:00Z