The University of Sri Jayewardenepura held an inaugural ceremony to mark the beginning of 2024 on January 1, 2024. The ceremony commenced at 8.45 a.m. at the University Vihara Mandiraya. The ceremony was inaugurated by the current Vice Chancellor, Senior Prof. Pathmalal M. Manage, in the presence of Maha Sangharathna, Deans of faculties of the...Read More
The University of Sri Jayewardenepura held an inaugural ceremony to mark the beginning of the year 2023 on the 2nd of January 2023. The ceremony commenced at 8.45am at the university vihara mandiraya. The Ceremony inaugurated with current Acting Vice Chancellor, Prof. Upul Subhasinghe with the presence of Maha Sangharathna, Deans of faculties of the university, university...Read More
Kala Suri Dr. Praneeth Abheysundara, Senior Lecturer at Department of Sociology and Anthropology with Japura Media have produced series of short videos on introducing concepts behind upcoming Sinhala and Tamai New Year to Young Generation. What is New Year – කලාසුරී ආචාර්ය ප්රණීත් අභයසුන්දර According to Astrology the house of Pisces is the twelfth and...Read More
In the first part of this post we discussed Sinhala and Hindu New Year as Traditional and Cultural Festival. In this post we discuss Sinhala and Hindu New Year Rituals. New Year Rituals Amunugama (1990) divides the New Year rituals for four different parts. The old year The interim period between the ‘Old’ and the ‘New’...Read More
The Sinhala and Hindu New Year has been one of the annual and seasonal events but the exact beginning of it is buried in the history. History of Sinhala and Hindu New Year In 1885 the British Colonial rulers have announced this as a holiday. Science then, even though there were many successive administrative changes,...Read More
Haritha Wasanthaya හරිත වසන්තය 2015 was held on 30th of April 2015 at Department of Forestry and Environment Science of the Faculty of Applied Science. සංවිධානය වන හා පාරිසරික විද්යා අධ්යනාංශය-ශ්රී ජයවර්ධනපුර විශ්වවිද්යාලය Photographed by Dhnanjaya Bandara Attanayaka Japura FlamesRead More