கவனிக்க: இந்த மின்னூலைத் தனிப்பட்ட வாசிப்பு, உசாத்துணைத் தேவைகளுக்கு மட்டுமே பயன்படுத்தலாம். வேறு பயன்பாடுகளுக்கு ஆசிரியரின்/பதிப்புரிமையாளரின் அனுமதி பெறப்பட வேண்டும்.
இது கூகிள் எழுத்துணரியால் தானியக்கமாக உருவாக்கப்பட்ட கோப்பு. இந்த மின்னூல் மெய்ப்புப் பார்க்கப்படவில்லை.
இந்தப் படைப்பின் நூலகப் பக்கத்தினை பார்வையிட பின்வரும் இணைப்புக்குச் செல்லவும்: Sri Lanka

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National
The necessity of a National Flag w Lanka gained independence on F Sinnalebbe, MIP for Batticaloa ta Council on January 16, 1948 sugg King Sri Wickrama Rajasinghe w| 1815 should be made the National later Prime Minister Rt. Hon. D, Advisory Committee for the formul Members of the Committee were M (Chairman), Sir John Kotalawela Mr. T. B. Jayah, Dr. L. A. Rajapak and Senator S. Nadesan.
Although a Committee for the fic was appointed no finality had be independence day was celebrate However the Lion Flag fluttered on the British Union Jack fluttered on of the first Parliament of independ on February 19th, 1948. Prime unfurled the Lion Flag at the Octag independence celebration held in 1948.
The National Flag recommende was presented to Parliament by Mr. 2nd, 1951 and adopted. It had twos
 

Flag
as discussed even before Sri ebruary 4th, 1948. Mr. A. bled a motion in the State esting that the Lion Flag of hich was taken to Britain in Flag. This was debated and S. Senanayake named an ation of a National Flag. The r. S. W. R. D. Bandaranalike l, Mr. J. R. Jayewardene, se, Mr. G. G. Ponnambalam
Irmulation of a national flag en reached when the first i on February 4th, 1948. that day. The Lion Flag and the occasion of the opening 2nt Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) Minister D. S. Senanayake n (Pattirippuwa) during the Kandy on February 12th,
d by the special committee D. S. Senanayake on March rips, one green and the other

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yellow. Each of these strips h size of the flag.
When Sri Lanka was first traditional Bo Leaves depic changed to resemble naturall first unfurled at the Republic 1972. The National Flag is i Schedule of the Constitutic Republic of Sri Lanka of Sel
Except for the new Bo leave recommended by the Nationa March 2nd, 1951.
 

ad to be equal to one seventh the
made a Republic in 1972 the ted in the National Flag were Bo leaves. This amended flag was Day celebration held on May 22, corporated in Section 6 Second in of the Democratic Socialist tember 09, 1978.
ܢܨܚܢܘ–- ܫܡܝܣ .
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ජාතික
தேசிய கி
NATIONAL A
ශ්‍රී ලාංකික ජනතාව අධිරාජ්‍යව ලබා ස්වාධීනවත්ම ඔවුන් තුළ නිදහස්
ශ්‍රී ලංකා ගාන්ධර්ව සභාව ම ජාතික ගීය සඳහා තරගයක් 1948 ජ
මේ අනුව ආනන්ද සමරකෙ මාතා"' ජාතික ගීය ලෙස තෝරා ගැණි
මෙම ගීතයෙහි ප්‍රධාන පරම ගෙබරවය සහ භක්තිය ජනිත කරවීමත් ප්‍රගතිය ඇති කරලීමත්ය.
1950 දශකයේ අග භාගයේ දී වාද විවාද ඇති විය. එහි ප්‍රතිඵලයක් ( 'ශ්‍රී ලංකා මාතා අප ශ්‍රී ලංකා’’ යන ප
1949 පෙබරවාරි මස 04 වන අළලා මියුසියස් බාලික විද්‍යාලයීය සිදු ජාතික ගීය ප්‍රථම වරට ගායනය කරන ප්‍රචාරය කෙරිණි.
ශ්‍රී ලංකා ප්‍රජාතාන්ත්‍රික සමා වාක්‍යවස්ථාවේ 7 වෙනි වගන්තිය යටතේ ජාතික ගීය ආණඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථාවේ ,
சுதந்திரம் அடைந்ததும் தேசிய உ6 மக்கள் தமக்கென ஒரு தேசிய கீதத்தையு மரத்தையும், தேசிய பூவையும், அரச சி ஆர்வம் காட்டினர்.
இலங்கை கந்தர்வ சபையின் சிப றினைத் தெரிவு செய்யும் போட்டி 194

ගීය
தேம்
ANTHEM
වාදී පාලනයෙන් පූර්ණ නිදහස
· හැඟීම් ජනිත වන්නට විය.
)ඟින් කළ යෝජනාවක් අනුව නවාරි මාසයේදී පැවැත්විණි.
jන් මහතාගේ 'නෙමා නමෝ ෆින.
ආර්ථය ජන්ම භූමිය කෙරෙහි 3. ජාතික සමඟිය තුළින් ජාතික
ජියාතික ගීය පිළිබඳ නොයෙකුත් ලෙස 1959 ජාතික ගීයේ මුලට පද එක්විය.
දින නිදහස සැමරුම් අවස්ථාව සුන් 500 ක සහභාගීත්වයෙන් x ලද අතර, ගුවන් විදුලියෙන් ද
|ජවාදී ජනරජයේ ආණඩුක්‍රම තුන්වන උපලේඛනය වශයෙන් ඇතුළක් කර ඇත.
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ணர்வுால் உந்தப்பட்ட இலங்கை ம், தேசியக் கொடியையும், தேசிய
ன்னத்தையும் கொண்டிருப்பதில்
ரிசுக்கிணங்க தேசிய கீதமொன் 3 சனவரியில் நடத்தப்பட்டது.

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அப்போட்டியில் திரு. ஆனந் மாதா” என்ற கீதம் தேசிய கீதப
தாய்நாட்டின் மீது பற்றும் கீதத்தின் நோக்கம். ஒற்றுமைை விருத்திப் பாதையில் வீறுநடை வாக்குதல் அதன் இலட்சியம்.
1948 பெப்புருவரி 4 ம் திக கொண்டாடப்பட்டபோது கொழு கள் அதை முதன் முதலாகப் முழுவதற்கும் ஒலிபரப்பப்பட்டது.
1950 ம் ஆண்டின் முற்பகுதி கிளம்பியது. ஆரம்ப அடி சரியான கருதப்பட்டது. அதன் விளைவா "சிறீ லங்கா தா
என்று மாற்றப்பட்டது.
சனநாயக சோஷலிச இலங்ை பிரிவின் 3 வது உபபிரிவில் இ டுள்ளது.
After gaining independence Lanka were kindled with pa
On the recommendation o competition to select a na January 1948.
At this competition la composition “Namo Namo M Anthem.
The main theme of the A and respect to the Mother through Unity.

த சமரக்கோன் இயற்றிய நமோ நமோ ாகத் தெரிவு செய்யப்பட்டது.
மதிப்பும் உண்டுபண்ணுவதே தேசிய ய வளர்ப்பதன் மூலம் நாட்டை அபி
போடச் செய்வதற்கான சூழலை உரு
நி சுதந்திர சதுக்கத்தில் சுதந்திர தினம் ம்பு மியூசியஸ் கல்லூரியின் 500 மாணவி பாடினர். அது வானொலி மூலம் நாடு
யில் தேசிய கீதம் பற்றிய சர்ச்சை ஒன்று ஒசைநயம் கொண்டிருக்கவில்லை என்று 5 முதலாவது அடி யே - நம் சிறீ லங்கா"
கக் குடியரசின் அரசியல் யாப்பின் 7 வது |லங்கையின் தேசிய கீதம் சேர்க்கப்பட்
from foreign rule the people of Sri triotic feeling.
f the Sri Lanka Gandharva Sabha a tional anthem was conducted in
ite Mr. Ananda Samarakoon's Matha’ was chosen as the National
nthem is designed to instill honour and and create national progress

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During the early 1950s there w national anthem. A defect was f opening words were changed as "S Lanka". The first rendering of the on Independence Day February C students from Musaeus College, C. Over the radio.
The National Anthem is incor schedule of the Constitution of Republic of Sri Lanka.
 

as a controversy about the ound in the lyrics and the Sri Lanka. Matha — Apa Sri National Anthem was made 4, 1948 by a group of 500 olombo and it was broadcast
porated in Section 7 third the Democratic Socialist

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ටජාතී
ශ්‍රී ලංකා මාතා අප ශ්‍රී ලංකා නමෝ නමෝ නමෝ න් අප ශ්‍රී ලංකා නමෝ න සුන්දර සිරි බරිනී සුර ධාන්‍ය ධනය නෙක ම(
අපහට සැප සිරි සෙත ජීවනයේ මාතා පිළිගනු මැන අප භක් නමෝ නමෝ මාතා අප ශ්‍රී ලංකා නමෝ නමෝ නමෝ න ඔබ වේ අප විද්‍යා ඔබමය අප සත්‍යයා ඔබටේ අප ශක්තී අප හද තුළ භක්තී ඔබ අප ආලෝකේ අපගේ අනුප්‍රානේ ඔබ අප ජීවන වේ අප මුක්තිය ඔබ වේ
නව ජීවන දෙමිනේ නිතින අප පුබුදු කර ඥාණ වීර්ය වඩවමින එක මවකගෙ දරු ක යමු යමු වී නොපමා පේම වඩා සැම භේද නමෝ නමෝ මාතා අප ශ්‍රී ලංකා නමෝ නමෝ නමෝ ?

තික ගීය
xමෝ මාතා )මොj නමෝ නමෝ මාතා Uඳි අති ශෝභමාන ලංකා ලී පළතුරු පිරි ජය භූමිය රමන්‍යා
-ܨܢܝܼܪܗܡ-ܚܘ.
) සදනා
තී පූජා
නමෝ මාතා
ත් මාතා
රැගෙන යනු මැන ජය භූමි කරා
ඇල බැවිනා
දුරැරදා
තමෝ මාතා

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தேசிய
சிறீ லங்கா தாயே - நம் சி நமோ நமோ நமோ தாயே !
நல்லெழில் பொலி சீரணி நலங்கள் யாவும் நிறை வான் ஞாலம் புகழ் வளவயல் நதி நறுஞ்சோலை கொள் லங்கா நமதுறு புகலிடம் என ஒளிர் நதிமது ஏல் தாயே நமதலை நினதடி மேல் வை நமதுயிரே தாயே - நம் சி, நமோ நமோ நமோ தாயே
நமதாரருள் ஆனாய் நவை தவிர் உணர்வானாய் நமதேர் வலியானாய் நவில் சுதந்திரம் ஆனாய் நமதிளமையை நாட்டே நகு மடி தனையோட்டே அமைவுறும் அறிவுடனே அடல்செறி துணிவருளே - நமோ நமோ நமோ தாயே
நமதார் ஒளிவள்மே நறிய மலர் என நிலவும் த யாமெலாம் ஒரு கருணை அ எழில்கொள் சேய்கள் எனே இயலுறு பிளவுகள் தமை அ இழிவென நீக்கிடுவோம் ஈழ சிரோமணி வாழ்வுறு பூ நமோ நமோ தாயே - நம் நமோ நமோ நமோ தாயே

ாமணி லங்கா
மலை மலர்
வாய்
பத் தோமே றி லங்கா
- நம் சிறீ லங்கா
ாயே
அனைபயந்த வ
அறவே
மணி
சிறீ லங்கா

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Nation
Sri Lanka Matha Apa Sri Lanka Namo Namo Sundara siri barini surandi at Dhanya dhanaya neka mal
Ramya Apa hata sapa siri setha sadh Piliganumana apa bhakthi po Apa Sri Lanka Namo Namo Obawe apa vidya Obamaya apa sathya Obawe apa shakthi Apa hada thula bhakthi Oba apa aloke Apage anu prane Oba apa jeevanave Apa mukthiya obawe Nava jeevana demine nithina Gnana veerya vadawamina
kara Eka mawakage daru kala baw Yamu yamu wee nopama Prema wada sama bheda dhu Namo Namo Matha Apa Sri Lanka Namo Namo

al Anthem
Namo Namo Matha hi soba mana Lanka palathuru piri jaya bhoomiya
Lana jeevanaye matha
oja Namo Namo Matha Namo Namo Matha
apa pubudu karan matha "agana yanu mana jaya bhoomi
wina
rarada
Namo Namo Matha.

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State
Sri Lanka used the British em Colony. We continued to usei in 1948. According to the committee appointed to devis Sri Lanka (Ceylon) we opted Lion with Sword in its right fo design atop. Below there was a in Sinhala, Tamil and Englis
A new republican emblem declared a Republic on May with a sword and the Pa punkalasa”, dhammachakka. paddy.
 

Emblem
blem when it was a British Crown it even after gaining independence recommendations of a Select e a state emblem more suitable for for a new State Emblem. It had a re paw encircled with a 'Palapethi’
strip carrying the country's name h.
was chosen after the country was 22, 1972. In addition to the lion lapethi design it portrays the , Sun, moon and two sheaves of

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National F
The Nil Mahanel flower was declar. Lanka on February 26, 1986. Its bi Stellata'. This flower is mentionec Sanskrit Literary works. The flowe “Kuvalaya”, “Indheewara”, “Nil “Nilupul” occupies a preeminent p too. It is said the "Nil Mahanel ceremonial designs found on the fo( This proves that it had been a ce history. It is believed that the di Frescoes also carry the Nil Mah Traditional poetry known as "San eyes to the Nil Mahanel flower wh ear Ornament.
The Nil Mahanel plant which grc in all parts of the country. The flo colour has a heavy concentration of Mahanel flower is also considered discipline.
 

Flower
ed the National Flower of Sri Otanical name is Nympheae in many Sinhala, Pali and r which is also referred to as uppala”, “Nilothpala' and osition in Buddhist literature Flower' was among the 108 otprint of Prince Siddhartha. remonial flower throughout amsels depicted in Sigiriya anel flower in their hands. iesa Kavya” likens women's ich has also been used as an
)ws in shallow waters is found wer which is purplish blue in petals in the centre. The Nil a symbol of truth, purity and

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Nati
A proposal made to declare
was adopted by the Cabinet c culturally we have been close centuries. It was chosen as t
(1) It is a tree which origina (2) Its utility; (3) Historic and Cultural in (4) Exterior posture; (5) Wide distribution; (6) Colour and nature ; (7) Ability to draw and skel
Botanically it is called "Me it is called the Iron Wood tree. in parks because of its majes signifies the tree is very hard building temples and devales
 

onal Tree
the Na Tree as the National Tree bn February 26, 1986. Socially and ly associated with the Na Tree for he National Tree for 7 reasons.
ated in Sri Lanka ;
mportance. ;
ch it easily.
sua Nagassarium” and in English An indigenous tree it is also grown tic beauty. As the English name and durable. The wood is used in

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LANDSAT MAP OF SRI LANKA

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