{"id":128,"date":"2018-10-23T17:49:36","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T17:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/sinhala\/?p=128"},"modified":"2019-03-31T16:58:42","modified_gmt":"2019-03-31T16:58:42","slug":"launch-of-sinhala-akuru-puranaya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/sinhala\/index.php\/launch-of-sinhala-akuru-puranaya\/","title":{"rendered":"Launch of Sinhala Akuru Puranaya (\u0dc3\u0dd2\u0d82\u0dc4\u0dbd \u0d85\u0d9a\u0dd4\u0dbb\u0dd4 \u0db4\u0dd4\u0dbb\u0dcf\u0dab\u0dba) (Chronicle of Sinhala Letters) \u2013 23rd Oct. 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The launch of\u00a0<em>S<strong>inhala Akuru Puranaya<\/strong>\u00a0\u0dc3\u0dd2\u0d82\u0dc4\u0dbd \u0d85\u0d9a\u0dd4\u0dbb\u0dd4 \u0db4\u0dd4\u0dbb\u0dcf\u0dab\u0dba<\/em>\u00a0( Chronicle of Sinhala Letters) written by Professor Sandagomi Coperahewa, Department of Sinhala, University of Colombo was \u00a0held on\u00a0<strong>23<sup>rd<\/sup>\u00a0October 2018<\/strong>\u00a0at 3.00 pm at the M.B. Ariyapala Auditorium , Faculty of Arts, University of Colombo.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Emeritus Professor J. B. Disanayaka chaired this session and Professor Ven. Agalakada Sirisumana (University of Colombo), Professor Gihan Dias (University of Moratuwa) and Pushpananda Ekanayaka (Font Designer) made short presentations. \u00a0The Emeritus Professors, Deans of the faculties, Heads of Departments, academics and a large gathering of Sinhala scholars and students participated at this event. This illustrated book\u00a0<em>Sinhala Akuru Puranaya<\/em>\u00a0covers 35 topics related to history, change and graphical identity of Sinhala letters. 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was \u00a0held on\u00a023rd\u00a0October 2018\u00a0at 3.00 pm at the M.B. Ariyapala Auditorium , Faculty of Arts, University of Colombo. Emeritus Professor J. B. Disanayaka chaired this session and Professor Ven. Agalakada Sirisumana (University of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":135,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,17,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/sinhala\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/sinhala\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/sinhala\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/sinhala\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/sinhala\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/sinhala\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":193,"href":"https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/sinhala\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions\/193"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/sinhala\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/sinhala\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/sinhala\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/sinhala\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}