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    The influence of English usage for creation of new Sinhalese words
    (Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya, 2015) Jayawardhane, K.B.; Rewatha Thero, U.
    There are ten major language families that have strong interdependence relationship of each other. Sinhala is our mother tongue and the second language is English. The influence of classical languages such as Sanskrit, Pali on Sinhala plays vital roles to generate new vocabulary. There are three main streams of word categorization due to influence of other languages such as Sanskrit, Pali and Tamil on Sinhala as Tatsama, Tadbhava and niṣpanna. Many researches have been conducted with respect to those languages except English. Numerous words and usages that have been extracted from English can be seen in our mother tongue. But those new trends (propensities) are not studied on the basis of ancient philological methods mentioned in Sanskrit grammar compilations. Generally people who are not fluent in English pronounce words in identical way. But the pronunciation of those words is critically reviled. For instance, the word of Aunt is pronounced as "enty" or "ānty ". These kinds of words are considered as wrong but the pronunciation of those words is accurate because these are tadbhava words and cannot be accepted as original English words. In this paper attempt will be taken to categorize and introduce this kind of new words that should be added to Sinhalese vocabulary.
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    Yama and Niyama Mention in Yoga Dharshana for Balance Life Style.
    (International Conference on Sanskrit Studies, 2017 Department of Sanskrit, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka., 2017) Silva, P.A.S.N.; Prabhashwari, A.L.S.; Jayawardhane, K.B.
    Yoga is the great philosophy which has a history running beyond to eras Vedas. Some of the practices mention in yoga philosophy can be found in Upanishad literature. Facts mention in yoga philosophy to uplift the individual and social health gathered from ayurvedic commentaries and Sanskrit literature. Aim of this study wears to review the importance of following yama and niyama mention in the Aṣṭāṅga yoga to enhance physical, mental and spiritual wellbeing of the individuals and society. According to yoga human being is created by two entities which are called as dosha and prakurti. Observe of positive values and avoidance of negative has been mention in yoga philosophy in order to uplift the good conduct of living being pacifying the above two entities. Achārya charaka has mention there are five principles which be followed by individuals and that liberation has obtain following yoga. Practice in the yama strive us towards the healthy life, mind strengthening, and our powers of awareness, win and physical wellbeing by following them. We can fortify character improve our relationships with others in trust worthy way. All the practices of yama are related to the relationship in between the follower and his external world. Niyama is the second limb of ashtanga yoga is focus on the internal environment of body, mind and spirit. It helps us to build up to self disciplean and inner strength of individuals. Following niyama can practice to reject unwanted emotions like anger, fighting, lazy and mind can stay in one thing. In finally can obtain moksha with practice of niyama.Following both yama and niyama people can improve their health by enhancing their physically mentally and spiritually wellbeing and having the balance healthy life style.