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In view of the necessity of providing global knowledge in the indigenous language, The Government of Sri Lanka recognized the need of compiling an Encyclopedia in Sinhala and commenced the Sinhala Encyclopedia Project in 1955 as a project to mark the Buddha Jayanthi year 2500.

The first Editor in Chief of the Sinhala Encyclopedia was late Professor D.E. Hettiarachchi, Professor of Sinhala, University of Ceylon. This project had completed fifty years by the year 2005.

As mentioned in its inauguration note, this project had been planned to cover an extensive range of subjects including Physics, Chemistry, Zoology, Botany, Political Science, Geography, Sociology, Archaeology, Western literature, Ayurved (Indigenous Medicine), Eastern and Western History, Biography, Arts and Crafts, Law, Commerce etc.

At the inception it was planned to complete the work in 15 Volumes of 750 pages each. In this connection, Encyclopedia Britanica, was used as a model to plan this work.

Although it was so expected in 1955, as large number of new subjects has been added to the present knowledge resources it is obvious that the number of 15 volumes has to be exceeded. It is now expected to complete the Encyclopedia in 20 Volumes. Volumes already published 1 1963

අ-අයිසොප්‍රින්

Prof. D.E. Hettiarachchi 2 1965 අයිසෝරියාව-ආහාර do 3 1967

ආහාර ආරක්ෂණය-ඉන්දු නිම්න ශිෂ්ටාචාරය

do 4 1970

ඉන්දුනීසියාව-උරස්සුචිකාර්ය

do 5

1974 උරාර්තු-ඖෂධීය ශාක

do 6

1978 ක-කාර්මික විද්‍යාව(තාක්ෂණ වේදය)

do 7

කොටස් වශයෙන් 1988 - 1991 කාර්මික විප්ලවය-කෙවෙල්‍යය

Dr.Harischandra Wijayatunga 8

1994 කොංකොඩැට්-ඛමේර් ජනපදය

Prof. K.N.O. Dharmadasa 9

1998 ග-ගුවන් සේවා

Prof. K.N.O. Dharmadasa 10

2001 ගුවන් හමුදාව-චහාර්

Prof. Mendis Rohanadheera 11

2006 චාඕ කුවාං යිං(තායි ද්සු)- ජේදි Prof. K.N.O. Dharamadasa 12

2012

ජ-ජාත්‍යන්තර වෙළදාම Prof. K.N.O. Dharamadasa 13

2014

ජාත්‍යන්තර ශබ්ද ශික්ෂා හෝඩිය - ටර්ක්මෙනිස්ථානය

Prof. K.N.O. Dharamadasa

Encyclopedia Staff Chief Editor Prof. Kulathilaka Kumarasingha Assistant Editor

Ranjana Dewamitra Senasinghe Editorial Assistants Sugandhi K. D. Mendis

Indika Piyarathna Art Editor

M. D. Ranjana Siriwardena

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Dinushi Niroma Hiripitiya