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Item A study on the records of meritorious deeds (Punya Lekhana) of the Kandyan era(Faculty of Humanities, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Gunasinghe, E.W.A.H.C.Records of Meritorious Deeds (Punya Lekhana) were composed to declare all the religious activities carried out by the members of the families of the higher strata of the Kandyan society. However, there were instances where these documents were prepared by people from lower levels of the social strata too. Although Punya Lekhana tradition emerged during the Kandyan era, there is much evidence to indicate that the background to the tradition of keeping records for religious purposes has a long history. This was done based on the different believes of the people on Karma. The aim of this paper is to discuss the uniqueness of the tradition of Records of Meritorious Deeds (Punya Lekhana) of the Kandyan era by examining the written sources. It is highlighted that all the people including the king used to keep written records on their religious activities. Punya Lekhana were kept in temples as palm leaf books and they can be categorized according to different purposes of writing them. This written tradition can be recognized as a historical source on religion, politics, economy and society of the Kandyan era which was not given due recognition by historians up to now.Item Studying the Wāhāla Nāgā ritual, Practised in the Siam Upasampadā in Sri Lanka(Research Centre for Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Gunasinghe, E.W.A.H.C.During the Kandyan Kingdom, the Upasampadā and the Buddha Sasana in Sri Lanka was undergoing a crisis situation. Ven. Welivita Saranankara Thero identified this issue and invited the monks from Siam (Thailand) in 1753 to restore the Upasampadā in Sri Lanka. Upali Thero who arrived from Siam initiated the Upasampadā process. The influence of the Thai Buddhism could be observed in monks who have been ordained under the Siayamolpali Maha Nikaya. A great example for this would be the Wāhāla Nāgā ritual which is practised in the Upasampadā ceremony. The difference of those who were ordained by the Wāhāla Nāgā ritual is that it was done under the patronage of the king. Therefore in the Upasampadā ceremony only the Wāhāla Nāgā novices permitted to wear a crown. This study focuses on the Wāhāla Nāgā ritual practised in the Upasampadā under the Siayame maha nikaya. In order to understand the history of the ritual, available literature and case studies were used as sources of information. The word ‘Wāhāla’ indicated that the ritual is associated with the king. King Keerthi Sri Rajasimha has initiated this ritual and Wāhāla Nāgās who have been ordained were given Ata pirikara by the king himself. Wāhāla Nāgā ritual starts on the Vesak full moon poya day and goes until the Poson full moon poya day. A group of 10 novices was be ordained from both Malwatta and Asgiri Chapters as Wāhāla Nāgās, while the High priests of the both chapters sponsor those who were ordained. This ritual is practised even today but instead of the king who donated Ata pirikara to the Wāhāla Nāgās, now they are given to the Wāhāla Nāgās by the Diyawadana Nilame. Interestingly, this ritual still has the impact of the Siam tradition since the crown that the Wāhāla Nāgās wear before the Upasampadā was donated by Thailand.Item උඩරට සමාජයේ පාරම්පරික චාරිත‍්‍රයක් ලෙස පවතින ගෝදානය(Department of Economics, University of Kelaniya, 2016) Gunasinghe, E.W.A.H.C.Item ජාතික සංවර්ධනය සඳහා මාර්ගෝපදේශ සපයන අනගාරික ධර්මපාලතුමාගේ දස වැදෑරුම් වැඩ පිළිවෙල(Ministry of Buddha Sasana and Department of Mass Communication, University of Kelaniya, 2016) Gunasinghe, E.W.A.H.C.Item පළමුවන විමලධර්මසූරිය රජුගේ රාජකීය මුද්‍රාව පිළිබඳ අධ්‍යයනයක්(The Research Center for Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, 2015) Gunasinghe, E.W.A.H.C.Item ලංකාවේ ස්වදේශික කර්මාන්ත ස්ථාපනයෙහිලා අනගාරික ධර්මපාලතුමාගේ දායකත්වය(Department of Mass Communication, University of Kelaniya, 2015) Hewawasan, H.H.N.S.; Dilhani, S.A.; Gunasinghe, E.W.A.H.C.Item ශී‍්‍ර වික‍්‍රම රාජසිංහ රජු විසින් අනුගමනය කරන ලද ශාසනික ප‍්‍රතිපත්ති පිළිබ`ද අධ්‍යයනයක්(Department of Economics, University of Kelaniya, 2016) Gunasinghe, E.W.A.H.C.Item සමන්තපාසාදිකාවේ දැක්වෙන ථෙරවාදී බෞද්ධ කාලානුක්‍රමය පිළිබඳ අධ්‍යයනයක්(Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Gunasinghe, E.W.A.H.C.Item සීක් දහමේ ආරම්භය හා විකාශය(SIDA/SAREC Research Library, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Gunasinghe, E.W.A.H.C.