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Sinhalese New Year, generally known as Aluth Avurudda ( Sinhala: අලුත් අවුරුද්ද) in Sri Lanka, is a Sri Lankan holiday that celebrates the traditional New Year of the Sinhalese people and Tamil population of Sri Lanka. It is a major anniversary celebrated by not only the Sinhalese and Tamil people but by most Sri Lankans.
Balangoda Ananda Maitreya Thero was born on 23 August 1896 in Kirindigala, Balangoda, to the family of N. A. Matthias Appuhamy (Maddumahamy) and B. Heenmanike. [ 2] His birth name was Punchi Mahattaya. His mother died when he was 14 days old and he was brought up by his father's brother and his wife. [ 2] His primary education was at Kumara ...
Kularatne was instrumental in getting the institution registered as a separate school on 1 November 1925. The new school was given its motto Apadana Sobhini Panna, and the school name Nalanda was also proposed by Ven. Balangoda Ananda Maitreya Thero. The English and the Sinhala versions are "Character illumines Wisdom" and "Yahapath Charithayen ...
2016 (Monday) 2015 (Saturday) 2014 (Friday) October 10 is the 283rd day of the year (284th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 82 days remain until the end of the year.
Poramadulla Central College. / 7.1406; 80.7743. Poramadulla Central College ( Sinhala: පොරමඩුල්ල මධ්ය විද්යලය) is a public national school in Rikillagaskada, Hanguranketha, Sri Lanka. [ 1] Flanked by the Diyatalawa mount on one side and the Kandapola area on the other, the school serves as a sports ...
[4] [1] Sinhala is also spoken as the first language by other ethnic groups in Sri Lanka, totalling about 2 million speakers as of 2001. [5] It is written using the Sinhala script, which is a Brahmic script closely related to the Grantha script of South India. [6] Sinhala is one of the official and national languages of Sri Lanka, alongside Tamil.
Shivananda National College, Batticaloa 1AB 1570 Batticaloa Manmunal North Vincent Girls' High School, Batticaloa 1AB 2156 Batticaloa Manmunal North St. Cecilia's Girls' College, Batticaloa 1AB 2132 Batticaloa Central Eravur Alighar Central College, Eravur 1AB 1387 Batticaloa Central Eravur Macan Markar National School, Eravur 1AB 1027
Anagarika Dharmapala was born on 17 September 1864 in Colombo, Ceylon to Don Carolis Hewavitharana of Hiththetiya, Matara and Mallika Dharmagunawardhana (the daughter of Andiris Perera Dharmagunawardhana ), who were among the richest merchants of Ceylon at the time. He was named Don David Hewavitharane. His younger brothers were Dr Charles ...