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Uluwahu Paenima (Sinhala)
Abstract
The Uluwahu Paenima is a undated popular liturgal manual written in Sinhala and circulated as an inexpensive chapbook for popular consumption
in Sri Lanka. It contains verses and invocations to be recited in crossing the threshold, an important South Asian dwelling consecration rite. It is part of a genre of popular works on housebuilding composed in the modern
languages of South Asia.
Date Issued
2007-10-23Subject
Architecture, Domestic
Sri Lanka,
Sinhalese (Sri Lankan peoples),
South Asian