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Journal articles on the topic "Sri Lankan Manuscripts"

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LIYANARATNE, JINADASA. "Some Sri Lankan medical manuscripts of importance for the history of Sout Asian traditional medicine." Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 64, no. 3 (October 2001): 392–400. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0041977x01000234.

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This paper is a philological study of twelve Sri Lankan medical manuscripts preserved in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, and the Cambridge University Library. It shows the impact of Buddhism on the development of traditional medicine in South Asia and the important role played by South Indian Vaidyas in the propagation of medical knowledge in Sri Lanka. Those Vaidyas appear to have been well versed in Siddha medicine and proficient in both Sinhala and Tamil languages. Only the historical and cultural aspects revealed in these documents are dealt with here. The therapeutic aspect is no less important in view of the large number of medicinal prescriptions, some of which are said to be of proven efficacy. The material presented may be of interest to students of the history of medicine and medical anthropology.
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Jackson, Kenneth David. "Cant a Sen Vargonya." Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 2, no. 1 (January 1, 1987): 31–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jpcl.2.1.03jac.

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This study analyzes the oral traditions of Sri Lanka Creole Portuguese as a syncretism of European, African, and Asian sources, evidenced in literary themes, linguistic practice, and cultural traditions. Resulting musical, dramatic, and textual practices play a central role in defining tradition and maintaining group identity in the creole communities. Both the co-existence and the interrelationship of oral texts establish traditions which contribute to a system of creole culture that spread throughout Asia. References are primarily to Sri Lankan and Indian materials collected by scholars in the late nineteenth century and during my field work in the 1970s and 1980s. Sri Lankan verses refer to the east coast Burghers of Bat-ticaloa and Trincomalee and to the Kaffirs of Puttalam. This study also presents for the first time a unique source for data and comparative analysis from the H. Nevill collection at the British Library, which is an extensive manuscript of Sri Lankan Creole texts from the 1870s or 1880s written in Dutch orthography and including material subsequently published by Schuchardt, Dalgado, and others. The theoretical focus concerns the translation of European, African, and Asian materials into a Eurasian discourse that displaces the originals, creating a new textual system of Portuguese Creole oral materials in Asia. The texts that give definition to creole culture have proved remarkably persistent, surviving in Sri Lanka from the seventeenth century to the present.
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Navirathan, Gayathiri, and Oshanithi Sivarasa. "Identifying Challenges and Barriers in Collecting, Documenting and Digitizing Palm Leaf Manuscripts in Eastern Sri Lanka." Shanlax International Journal of Arts, Science and Humanities 8, no. 4 (April 1, 2021): 13–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.34293/sijash.v8i4.3798.

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The palm leaf manuscripts are the sources of the cultural heritage of our ancestors. It is a very crucial part of the librarians or archivists or curators to conserve and preserve them from passing the information and knowledge to successive generations. Palm leaf manuscripts indicate previous documentary heritage and conservation, preservation and made them available shortly is a challenging and demanding task at present. Sri Lanka has a rich history of documentary heritage comprised of valuable palm-leaf collections. In eastern Sri Lanka, the palm leaf manuscripts are spread everywhere as personal holdings.There are many countries all over the world that put much effort into preserving them for the future. One of the potent methods of preserving those endangered documents like manuscripts is digitization. At this point, there is an urgent need to find the suitability of preserving those palm leaf manuscripts in the facets of digitization techniques.As the palm leaf manuscripts are shown as endangered through ages while tackling them to collecting and documenting them, several challenges were faced. Therefore identifying the solutions to overcome those challenges and barriers is important to further the documentation and digitization process of palm leaf manuscripts. The study aims to find the challenges and barriers in collecting, documenting and digitizing those palm leaf collections in eastern Sri Lanka.
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de Silva Jayasuriya, Shihan. "Indo-Portuguese Songs of Sri Lanka: the Nevill Manuscript." Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 59, no. 2 (June 1996): 253–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0041977x00031566.

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The Portuguese presence in Sri Lanka dates back to the early sixteenth century and lasted some hundred and fifty years. It gave rise to a Creole language based on Portuguese, Sri Lanka Portuguese Creole (SLPC), which Dalgado (1936) considered to be the most vigorous of the Portuguese Creoles.
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Sah, Anupam. "PUSKOLA POTHl: PALM LEAF MANUSCRIPTS OF SRI LANKA." Studies in Conservation 47, supplement2 (September 2002): 14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/sic.2002.014.

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Sah, Anupam. "PUSKOLA POTHl: PALM LEAF MANUSCRIPTS OF SRI LANKA." Studies in Conservation 47, sup2 (September 2002): 14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/sic.2002.47.s2.014.

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Kim, Young-Hee, Kyoung-Hwa Choi, Jin-Young Hong, Jeung-Min Lee, Soo-Ji Kim, Chang-Wook Jo, and So Young Jeong. "Investigation of Microorganisms Deteriorating Ancient Ola Leaf Manuscripts." Restaurator. International Journal for the Preservation of Library and Archival Material 41, no. 3 (October 25, 2020): 119–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/res-2020-0004.

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AbstractOla leaf manuscripts from Sri Lanka date back to several centuries. While they have been well preserved over the last century, their condition has worsened in recent years when black dots caused by microorganisms started occurring on their surface. In this study, the current state of preservation and the factors causing deterioration are examined using microscopy techniques. Microscopic images clearly show that the manuscripts are contaminated by microorganisms which penetrated deeply into the carrier material, destroying the internal structure. A Penicillium griseofulvum strain was recognized as the most active microorganism in xylan degradation. Sri Lanka’s climate provides favorable conditions for the growth of these fungi. Therefore, it is suggested that temperature and humidity of the archival space should be better controlled in order to ensure the Ola leaf manuscripts’ long-term preservation.
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Ricci, Ronit. "The discovery of Javanese writing in a Sri Lankan Malay manuscript." Bijdragen tot de taal-, land- en volkenkunde / Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia 168, no. 4 (2012): 511–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22134379-90003555.

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Beyond the boundaries of what is typically considered the Indonesian-Malay world, a small community known today as the Sri Lanka Malays continued to employ the Malay language in writing and speech long after its ancestors left the Indonesian archipelago and Malay peninsula for their new home. Although it is reasonable to assume that the ancestors of the Malays spoke a variety of languages, at least initially, no traces of writing in another Indonesian language have ever been found. Below I present the first evidence of such writing, in Javanese, encountered in an early nineteenth century manuscript from Colombo.
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V, Gunapalasingam. "Small Deity Worship in Sri Lanka: A Comparative Study Based on Hindu and Buddhist Religious Traditions." International Research Journal of Tamil 3, no. 4 (September 15, 2021): 99–107. http://dx.doi.org/10.34256/irjt21413.

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The People who have not only multi ethnic, multi -religious and multi -languages in Sri Lanka but also, they follow different beliefs and cultural traditions as well. Hindu and Buddhist religious and cultural traditions are very prominent in Sri Lanka. Even though India is the root cause for the prevailing Hindu and Buddhist traditions in Sri Lanka, both the traditions and its worships and beliefs have unique and independent characteristics different from India. Small deity worship comprises of unique and independent characteristics in Sri Lanka. Small Deity worship in Hindu tradition: Kazhippu ritual, temple ritual, Kumara Deiva worship, Vairava worship, Pathini Amman worship, tree worship, Naga thampiran worship and small deity worship in Buddhist tradition: Thovil, Magapirith, katharagama deio, Bahirava, Pathini Deio, Bothi tree, Maga Naga are compared and identified unique and innovative characteristics among them. In this research, historical method, comparative method and descriptive method have been used. Data gathered from field work are considered as primary sources and data gathered from literature, research articles, manuscripts, etc. considered as secondary sources. Knowing origin and background of Hindu and Buddhist religion, identifying characteristics of small deity worship in Hindu and Buddhist tradition in Sri Lanka, discovering unique and innovative characteristics of small deity worship of Hindu and Buddhist traditions and evaluating values revealed by the two traditions are objectives of the research. Research area for this study is Magoya Divisional Secretary and Eravur Pattu Divisional Secretary. The conclusion of the research is that the small deity worships of the above two traditions fulfills psychological needs of the concerned people and small deity worship beliefs and traditions of Hindu and Buddhist religions will continue for long time.
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Alahakoon, CNK. "Identification of physical problems of major palm leaf manuscripts collections in Sri Lanka." Journal of the University Librarians Association of Sri Lanka 10 (December 10, 2006): 54. http://dx.doi.org/10.4038/jula.v10i0.318.

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Books on the topic "Sri Lankan Manuscripts"

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Gunawardana, Sirancee. Palm leaf manuscripts of Sri Lanka. [Colombo?: s.n.], 1997.

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Lanang, Perpustakaan Tun Seri. Senarai manuskrip Melayu dan sastera Melayu lama bentuk mikrofom milik Perpustakaan Tun Seri Lanang. Bangi: Cawangan Pandang Dengar, Perpustakaan Tun Seri Lanang, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 1988.

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National Library and Documentation Centre (Sri Lanka). Documentation Services Division. and National Library and Documentation Centre (Sri Lanka), eds. Bibliography on palm leaf manuscripts in Sri Lanka =: Śrī Laṅkāvē puskoḷa pot piḷibanda grantha nāmāvaliya. Koḷamba: Jātika Pustakāla hā Pralēkhana Madhyasthānaya, 2007.

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Koḷamba Jātika Kautukāgāra pustakālayē puskoḷa pot piḷibanda vistārātmaka grantha nāmāvaliya. Koḷamba: Jātika Kautukāgāra Depārmēntuvē Prakāśanayaki, 2011.

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Book chapters on the topic "Sri Lankan Manuscripts"

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Scheible, Kristin. "Conclusion." In Reading the Mahavamsa. Columbia University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.7312/columbia/9780231171380.003.0007.

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THE PĀLI Mahāvaṃsa has survived through fifteen hundred years of history to become a seminal text of Sri Lankan Buddhism. It has survived thanks in part to the scribes who were charged along the way with copying it (palm-leaf manuscripts do not hold up indefinitely in the Sri Lankan climate). It survived the early translation performed by George Turnour and the consequent attention it garnered from Western Orientalists. And it survived through numerous other intervening interpretations, finally making its way into the hands of modern interpretive communities and scholars alike. Modern scholars must be grateful to all these scribes and interpreters, without whom the text may not have survived at all. Yet we must not forget the work that these interpretations have exerted on our modern understanding of the text. As I hope to have shown by now, key operative facets of this text—its literary form, function, and aims as well as the emotionally provocative, religious work it can perform on the primed reader—warrant a reorientation of modern scholarship on this monumental text....
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