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  2. Sinhala Hound - Wikipedia

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    The Sinhala Hound is a landrace of dog from Sri Lanka. The Sinhala Hound is a native dog found throughout Sri Lanka, often living in a semi-wild state scavenging for food. [ 1 ] According to a native legend, when Prince Vijaya first set foot on Sri Lanka in the 6th century BC , he was greeted by the barking of dogs; the Mahāvaṃsa mentions ...

  3. Sri Lankan literature - Wikipedia

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    Sri Lankan literature is the literary tradition of Sri Lanka. The largest part of Sri Lankan literature was written in the Sinhala language, but there is a considerable number of works in other languages used in Sri Lanka over the millennia (including Tamil, Pāli, and English). However, the languages used in ancient times were very different ...

  4. Martin Wickramasinghe - Wikipedia

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    Guttila Gitaya 1 (Critical Review) (1943) Sinhala Sahityaye Negima (Landmarks of Sinhala Literature) (1945) Sahitya Kalava (Art of Literature) (1950) Kavya Vicharaya (Sinhala Poetry:A critical Review) (1954) Atta Yutta (Essays in Literature) (1955) Bana Katha Sahitya (Buddhist Folk Literature) (1955) Nava Padya Sinhalaya (Modern Sinhala Poetry ...

  5. Hitopadesha - Wikipedia

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    The thief, the ass and the dog 2.4 The lion, the mouse and the cat 2.5 The poor woman and the bell 2.6 The adventures of Kanadarpaketu 2.7 The farmer's wife and her two gallants 2.8 The crow, the golden chain and the black serpent 2.9 The lion and the rabbit 2.10 The partridges and the sea

  6. Literature review - Wikipedia

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    A literature review can be a type of a review article. In this sense, it is a scholarly paper that presents the current knowledge including substantive findings as well as theoretical and methodological contributions to a particular topic. Literature reviews are secondary sources and do not report new

  7. Hela Havula - Wikipedia

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    By the beginning of the 1960s, the Hela Hawula was the strongest force in the country in terms of the Sinhala language and literature. [11] At that time the 'Hela Havula' had branches not only in Ahangama, Unawatuna, Rathgama, Galle, Kalutara and Kandy but also in schools such as Mahinda College in Galle and S. Thomas' College, Mount Lavinia .

  8. List of fictional dogs in prose and poetry - Wikipedia

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    Dog who was the only witness to his owner's suicide. Her husband attempts to find out why she committed suicide by teaching the dog to communicate by talking. U.S. book title is The Dogs of Babel. Martha: Martha Speaks: Susan Meddaugh: Main protagonist, Martha is a talking dog that was born an energetic stray and was put in the dog pound as a ...

  9. List of calques - Wikipedia

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    Icelandic rafmagn, "electricity", is a half-calqued [definition needed] coinage that literally means "amber power". raf translates the Greek root ἤλεκτρον (ḗlektron), which means "amber" magn, "power", is descriptive of electricity's nature but not a direct calque from the source word "electricity" Samviska (conscience).