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    Art and tradition of Sri Lanka - Vol 11: Dance of Sri Lanka
    Karunaratne, PVM
    The Art Tradition of Sri Lanka volume II Dance of Sri Lanka is a unique piece of work. The page by page coverage is of the development of dance forms through Sri Lankan history sumptuous imagery and experts’ accessible guide to the dance tradition of the country. This will serve as a great text book for University students who involve in the appreciation of art traditions of Sri Lanka as well as academia. The use of forms of dance permeates every culture and tradition from the earliest times to the modern day. Combining aesthetic impact with cultural significance, the dance form adorns all types of surfaces from stone, wood and ivory and also covers some of areas of Buddhist and Hindu architectural sites. The Art Tradition of Sri Lanka Volume II dance of Sri Lanka reflects this ubiquity by presenting a biography of dance forms in a variety of forms – painted, architectural and carved dance forms are displayed in more forms. Each chapter also contains the uniqueness of Sri Lankan dance forms spread throughout history where dance forms are plucked from history where brought to the fore with essential details isolated and framed. This permits a detailed study of how dance form become a part of tradition and culture of the country, how the artisan has been recognized by the society and what aspects artisans look forward to, how different eras celebrate dance as an art form by poetical literature, paintings, sculptures, carvings associated with cultural and religious aspects, how the classical dance form developed in the country and how the costume played a pivotal role in dance in Sri Lanka. The writings provided here are from the ancient history to the dance costume. The Art Tradition of Sri Lanka Volume II dance of Sri Lanka discovers intriguing cultural elements and connections, narrated of stories of the great patterns of innovators and creates original reference to inspirational design resources.
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    Art and tradition of Sri Lanka - Volume 01: Music of Sri Lanka
    Ranathunga, GM
    Music Singing and playing musical instruments have been developed and spread according to their unique traditions all over the world. Therefore this book titled ‘Art and Tradition of Sri Lanka: Music of Sri Lanka’ can be considered as a timely necessary task. The author Dr. Gayathri Madubhani Ranathunga, Senior Lecturer at the Fashion Design and Product Development of the Department of Textile and Clothing Technology, University of Moratuwa has made a noteworthy effort in exploring the socio-cultural aspects of the history of music of Sri Lanka. The book consists of four chapters. The first chapter is about an unsighted overview of the tradition in Sri Lanka. The second is about the chronological development of the music tradition of Sri Lanka. The third is about the history of musical instruments of Sri Lanka. The forth is about musical instruments of today.Explorations are based on archaeological evidences of Sri Lanka and it is important that the author was able to build a sound dialogue between Sri Lankan music tradition and its interaction with society. This scholarly work is very much vital for researchers and students of the respective subject areas. Besides, anyone who studies the practical side of aesthetic subjects can be guided with insight into the music of Sri Lanka through a different perspective. Also, any who seeks subject matter related to music of Sri Lanka can understand the content easily. One of the responsibilities of a university lecturer is to contribute to the research culture and generously share and publish earned knowledge. Therefore, I would like to wish the author all success and may she involve in such service and publish more research work in the future as well.
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    The Buddhist robe: The path pointing to natural dyes and possible establishment of a natural dyeing industry in the apparel sector of Sri Lanka with special reference on the Buddhist robe
    Wijayapala, UGS; Ranathunga, GM; Karunaratne, PVM
    It gives us pleasure to release this writing as a complete intensive study on the greatly unexplored area of the Buddhist Robe for the benefit of the researchers and for the University undergraduates verifying and identifying how natural dyeing plays a pivotal role in colouration in ancient context which signified much with its eco-friendly nature, what is commonly discussed and falls into sustainable practices. The Buddhist Robe: the path pointing to natural dyes and possible establishment of a natural dyeing industry in the apparel sector of Sri Lanka with special reference on the Buddhist robe is a scholarly work is the first of a series intended primarily as a invaluable reference source book for undergraduates of our Universities. This is a totally a practical guide in applying how the related natural colour substances apply to real life situations like offering Kaṭhina Cīvara Pūjā by colouring natural dye stuffs, since Professor Samudrika devoted more than 15 years exploring, experimenting and specializing in natural dye stuffs creating a path way for many followers by taking the initiative to invoke the imperative provisions of natural dyeing for the benefit of the textile sector meeting the expectations of the sustainable practices which recover through the proper application of natural dye stuffs which are available to us. The page by page coverage of the Sri Lankan Buddhist robe dye history with sumptuous imagery and experts’ accessible guide to the natural dye tradition of the country. This will serve as a great reference for not only for undergraduates who involve in the appreciation of natural dye traditions of Sri Lanka but also for academics who teach the subject and researchers who are involved in the respective fields. Combining contextual facts impact with cultural significance, the traditional robe dye adorns all types of surfaces from discarded cloth to refined cotton cloth. This scholarly work reflects this ubiquity by presenting a biography of dye forms in a different way – painted, literal and laboratory status of dye particles. Chapter one contains the uniqueness of Sri Lankan dye stuffs spread throughout history where natural dyes are plucked from history brought to the fore with essential details isolated and framed. This permits a detailed research of how natural dye systems become of a part of Buddhist traditional practice and culture of the country. Further this work discovers intriguing cultural elements and connections, which are based on original references too. This is an overview and an in-depth research of the robes worn by the Buddhist monks with its cultural context in relation to the great chronicle of Mahāvaggapāli, Vinaya-piṭaka of the Pali Canon in its 8th chapter: ‘Cīvarakkhandakaya’ describes the robe of Buddhist priests and its traditional practices. The second chapter is dedicated to establish a historical representation of the Buddhist robe emerging in the socio-cultural context in terms of developing its visual and figurative aspects discussed with an array of visuals depicted in Sri Lankan temple paintings. The third chapter highlight the art of traditional dyes in Sri Lanka with its colour substances, methods, materials and some significant dye recipes based on well proven literary facts. The fourth chapter considers the scientific clarification of the methodology of robe dyeing and its characteristics under set laboratory condition.
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    Dress fashions of Royalty: Kotte kingdom of Sri Lanka
    Karunaratne, PVM
    This collection of writings provides an intensive reading of dress fashions of royalty which intensified Portuguese political power over the Kingdom of Kotte. The royalties were at the top in the social strata eventually known to be the fashion creators of society. Their engagement in creating and practicing dress fashion prevailed from time immemorial. The author builds a sound dialogue within six chapters’ covering most areas of dress fashion by incorporating valid recorded historical data, variety of recorded visual formats cross checking each other, clarifying how the period signifies a turning point in the fashion history of Sri Lanka culminating with emerging novel dress features. This scholarly work is very much vital for university academia and fellow researches in the stream of Humanities and Social Sciences interested in historical dress fashions and usage of jewelry. Furthermore, the content leads the reader into a new perspective on the subject through a sound dialogue which has been narrated through validated recorded historical data, recorded historical visual information, and logical analysis with reference to scholars of the subject area. Therefore the reader is guided into cross referencing over a variety of data gradually and will gain reliable and analytical interpretation of the subject.
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    Fashions of Royalty: The Kandyan Kingdom of Sri Lanka
    Ranathunga, GM
    This book aims at discussing the fashion of the Kings and Queens during the Kandyan Kingdom of Sri Lanka (15th Century – early 19th Century). There are plenty of visual records to study the background of this setting such as sketches and descriptions made by observer – participants of the period, historical murals, carvings and sculptures of the period. Wall paintings which depict the dress of the era, sketches of foreign diplomats are observed in the research. Historical details about the Kandyan dress are well documented visually even more in the early administrative eras. Original written sources and true pictorial evidences were used for the research. Besides, the Kandyan tradition has a living culture as well. Therefore, when dresses of the Kandyan era are examined the Kandyan period is remarkably marked with very significant signs with ample visual and written evidences. Museum collections of dresses belonging to the era were observed. Therefore, pictorial data were cross checked with different literary sources such as temple murals and particular literature, research work pertaining to the subject, enabling to build a strong logical analysis of fashions of the Kings and Queens of the Kingdom of Kandy. The Firstly, the study tries to testify the reliability of chosen images of the Kings and the Queens of the Kandyan Kingdom. The reliability of factors is taken as the key in presenting the chronology of costumes of the Kandyan Kingdom. . This collection of writings on fashion of royalty of the Kandyan Kingdom of Sri Lanka is based on fundamental documents that intend to discuss the original majesty of the royalty of the Kandyan Kingdom. In the ancient administrative eras of Sri Lanka, royal majesty was depicted almost uniformly in every temple mural. It can be suggested that the sartorial etiquettes of royalty who were depicted in the early administrative eras were based on ancient doctrine. However, the presentation of the Kandyan royalty in their recordings is rather exotic and different from early depictions. Each King shows individual aesthetic appreciation in his sartorial etiquettes. Their many dress categories, shapes and silhouettes, materials, colour, patterns and jewellery show intricate delicacy in fashion.
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    Regreening and environmental enhancement at Akurala, Sri Lanka
    Wijesekera, NTS
    This book is published as a supplementary reading material introducing rehabilitation of abandoned coral mines and regreening the coastal zone in the Hikkaduwa Divisional Secretary Division with community and mining regulatory authority participation to ensure sustainable coastal ecosystem enhancement. Reproduction of this book is permitted only for non-commercial purposes. Use of this book is encouraged for teaching and training activities with proper acknowledgements to Editor, Publisher, and the Green Coast program administered by ITUCN.
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    Santhanadeepaya: Heritage catholic churches of the Kalpitiya peninsula
    (2015-10-13) Jayasinghe, S; Jayasinghe, S
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    Space construction
    (2022) Thathsara, Rusin
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    A surface source singularity model for time averaged flow around cylindrical structures
    (2013-11-21) Sugathapala, AGT
    A simple method of solution to the problem of two-dimensional separated flow around multiple-body circular cylindrical structures is presented. The method is applied to the case of two identical cylinders where the free-stream direction is perpendicular to the line joining the centers. The effect of the bodies and their wakes on the outer potential flow is modelled by surface source distributions over the front wetted surfaces. The flow in the wakes, generated by the source distributions, is ignored. The condition of the zero normal velocity is applied over the front surface to obtain an integral equation for the source strength. This equation is solved with the condition of finite velocities at the separation points to find the unknown source strength distribution and the positions of the separation points. The pressure distribution on the front wetted surface is then calculated through Bernoulli's equation. The pressure distribution on the rear surface exposed to the wake is assumed to be determined by the separation values. The effects of the distance between the bodies on the flow pattern, position of the separation points, wake under-pressure and the resultant forces are analysed. The most significant feature of the present flow model is that no empirical parameters are needed for the analysis. The empirical parameters used in other models, the back pressure coefficient and the positions of the separation points, can be predicted through the present model.
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    Transaction log analysis for exploring search patterns of the OPAC users of University of Moratuwa
    (2021) Punchihewa, CND; Kumara, ADB; Wijetunge, P; Alahakoon, CNK
    This transaction log analysis study aimed to identify the searching behaviour, searching patterns and causes of search failures of the patrons with the Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC) of the University of Moratuwa. Further, this study could guide implementing various changes to improve the Library Management System (LMS) and its OPAC, re-structure the library's user education programmes, and identify the necessary adjustments required for different types of library services. The OPAC transaction log contained 95,340 records for three months (from August to October 2019) and was analysed statistically using multivariate techniques. Two kinds of transaction logs were identified in this study. It was considered 68,618 records as non-logged transactions and 9,592 records as logged transactions. According to the results of the study, the average number of transactions per month was 26,070. The average number of non-logged transactions per month was 22,873, and the average logged transactions per month was 3,197. Results of the study have evidenced that the patrons highly preferred the simple search interface over the advanced search interface. The keyword search was the most popular searching option of the patrons in simple search, and many filtering options offered in the advanced search interface were underutilised. The study results have forced the library to redesign its user education programmes to provide better awareness, knowledge, and skills for patrons in handling OPAC. The library should regularly emphasise OPACs features and advantages among the students using various promotional activities such as user awareness workshops, leaflets, discussion forums or chat services, etc. The functionality and design of the OPAC should be reformed to satisfy the patrons and their information needs.
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    ආලොකො උදපාදී
    (2014) හේවාපතිරණ, ආ
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    ගමන නිමවිය
    Hewapathirana, A; හේවාපතිරණ, ආ
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    දිගු ගමනක අතර මගදි
    හේවාපතිරණ, ආ; Hewapathirana, A
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    නිවන මඟ
    හේවාපතිරණ, ආ; Hewapathirana, A