{"id":78546,"date":"2018-06-19T15:44:13","date_gmt":"2018-06-19T22:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=78546"},"modified":"2018-06-19T15:44:13","modified_gmt":"2018-06-19T22:44:13","slug":"royal-asiatic-society-of-sri-lanka-monthly-public-lecture-on-monday-25th-june-2018-at-5-00-p-m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/06\/19\/royal-asiatic-society-of-sri-lanka-monthly-public-lecture-on-monday-25th-june-2018-at-5-00-p-m\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka Monthly Public Lecture on Monday 25th\u00a0June 2018 at 5.00 p.m."},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong>Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka (RASSL)<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Public\u00a0Lecture<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>&#8216;Water Deliveries and Diversions in Ancient Sri Lanka: Some Alternative Interpretations&#8217;<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">by<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #808000;\">\u00a0Eng. Chandana Jayawardana<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>on<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>Monday 25<sup>th\u00a0<\/sup>June 2018 at 5.00 p.m.<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\">at the<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Gamini Dissanayake Auditorium<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\">No. 96, Ananda Coomaraswamy Mawatha, Colombo 07<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>ALL ARE WELCOME<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Ancient Irrigation System in Sri Lanka is a vastly discussed topic. The inputs and outputs of this system as well as the forms and the functions of the system components have been studied, interpreted and documented since the colonial times. However, the validity and the consistency of some of those interpretations are contentious and the methodologies adopted in formulating such interpretations need to be re-addressed. This lecture attempts to provide some alternative interpretations for few system components and their possible function in the original form.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka (RASSL) Public\u00a0Lecture &#8216;Water Deliveries and Diversions in Ancient Sri Lanka: Some Alternative Interpretations&#8217; by \u00a0Eng. Chandana Jayawardana on Monday 25th\u00a0June 2018 at 5.00 p.m. at the Gamini Dissanayake Auditorium No. 96, Ananda Coomaraswamy Mawatha, Colombo 07\u00a0 ALL ARE WELCOME \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Ancient Irrigation System in Sri Lanka is a vastly discussed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}