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Item The Apotheosis of Seethawaka Rajasinghe I: The God Ganegoda(University of Kelaniya, 2015) Jayasundara, M.B.B.The tales related to the origin of the ethereal phenomena is one important aspect of folklore. Most of these stories expose the elevation of a famous person in society to divinity through his potent abilities and persona. According to religious concepts and widespread social belief, as a consequence of a person engaged in meritorious deeds will be reborn as a god; a sublime being. However some mortals were turned into gods not because of the good qualities they have possessed or displayed during their life span, but because of their ferociousness. The god Ganegoda who is popular in the regions of Seethawake could be considered a god who demonstrated the latter quality. According to folklore Ganegoda is the incarnation of RajasingheI, who was the greatest ruler of the kingdom of Seethawake. RajasingheI, a war-hero who had massacred thousands of Portuguese was fondly remembered by people as a ruler who fought vehemently for the sovereignty of the motherland. Yet, he has a low estimation as a power hungry son who committed patricide. Further it is a well known fact that he had engaged in sacrilegious acts and later converted into Saivasim. The historical facts and existing folklore prove that RajasingheI was elevated into divinity mainly because of his warrior skills, which the general public fears, and thus honours him.This study aims to examine the concept of the god Ganegoda by analyzing the historical as well as the folkloric sources and data collected during field expeditions.Item Comparative Study on Previous Lives of both Milindu and Nāgasena as presented in Nāgasena Bhikshu Sutta and in Pāli Milindapañha(Centre for Chinese Studies, Department of Modern Languages, Faculty of Humanities, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Jayasundara, M.B.B.Item The force behind the translation of pali Milindapanho into Sinhala(Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya, 2015) Jayasundara, M.B.B.―Milindapanho‖ is a remarkable Pali text which depicts the religious discourse between the Greco – Indian king Minander (Milindu) who ruled the north western region of India in the 2nd centuary B.C. and Arhath Nagasena thero. This book was translated into Sinhala as ―Sri Saddharmadasa‖ by Heenatikumbure Sumangala thero, a disciple who represent the school of the venerable Veliwita Saranankara who was invited for this literary task by the Kandyan king Keerthi Sri Rajasinghe (1747 – 1781 A.D.). Sinhala literature is enriched with many scholarly works from Anuradhapura to mediaval period which were based on Pali and Sanskrit sources and they can be interpreted as translations and adaptations of the original source. Yet, a scholarly work which is created on the foundation of logic was not apparent until the emergence of Milinda Prashnaya in the Kandyan era. This Pali text which was in usage from Anuradhapura period was not translated during the literary period of Kurunegala. Kurunegala is generally accepted as the period which the culmination of translation work occurred. But Pali Milindapanho was not translated into Sinhala during that era which gives prominence to translator works. It was translated during the Kandyan period, centuries later and there should be a special reason or agent behind this phenomenon. Kandyan era portrays the deterioration of economic, political and cultural spheres. Scholars believe Milindapanho was introduced into Sinhala literary field as a result of the challenge of Christianity towards Buddhism. This research work of ours which was done by using historical and literary sources of the Kandyan period reveals the above mentioned intention was not the only cause for this translation. One intention was to provide a religious text which could be prescribed to contemporary students who lived in a period which marked the deterioration of ―Dharma‖ and ―Vinaya‖. The other intention was to attract the attention of ruling king of that period, Keerthi Sri Rajasinghe, who was a descendant of the Nayakkar clan. It was feared that the king would turned in to a heretic under the influence of superstitious belief system of the era. Accordingly Sinhala Milinda Prashnaya was a scholarly religious work which was produced to fulfill the needs of Kandyan era.Item Referential study of changing attitudes on cattle in the Sinhalese culture(University of Kelaniya, 2008) Jayasundara, M.B.B.Item ගව වෙදකම පිළිබඳ ජනශ්‍රැති විද්‍යාත්මක අධ්‍යයනයක්(University of Kelaniya, 2008) Jayasundara, M.B.B.Item ගවයා පිළිබඳ සමාජ ආකල්ප(University of Kelaniya, 2006) Jayasundara, M.B.B.Item පාලි මිලින්ද පඤෙහා කෘතියට පදනම් වූ මූලාශ්‍රයෙහි භාෂා මාධ්‍යය සම්බන්ධයෙන් ඉදිරිපත් ව ඇති මතවාද පිළිබඳ විමසුමක්(Department of Sanskrit, University of Kelaniya, Kelaniya, 2016) Jayasundara, M.B.B.Item මහනුවර යුගයේ සමාජ සාමායික තොරතුරු හඳුනා ගැනීමෙහිලා කුසලානුක්‍රියා සන්දේශයෙහි' ප්‍රාමාණිකත්වය පිළිබඳ විමසුමක්(Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Jayasundara, M.B.B.Item සද්ධර්මාදාස නම් වූ සිංහල මිලින්ද ප්‍රශ්නය පිළිබඳ විමර්ශනාත්මක අධ්‍යයනයක්(2015) Jayasundara, M.B.B.Item සීතාවක රාජසිංහයන් හා සබැඳි දෙවෝත්පත්ති කතාව හෙවත් ගනේගොඩ දේවතා සංකල්පය(Faculty of Humanities, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2015) Jayasundara, M.B.B.