Senarat Paranavitana Commemoration Volume

by Senarath Paranavithana (Editor), J. E. Van Lohuizen-De Leeuw (Editor), Karthikgesu Indrapala (Editor)

300 pages, Leather Bound

Published June 1, 1978

About the author

Senarath Paranavitana, CBE (Sinhala:සෙනරත් පරණවිතාන) (26 December 1896 – 4 October 1972) was a Sri Lankan archeologist and epigraphist, who pioneered much of post-colonial archaeology in Sri Lanka. He served as the Commissioner of Archeology from 1940 to 1956 and there after as Professor of Archeology at the University of Ceylon from 1957 to 1961.