Don Martino de Zilva Wickremasinghe

Don Martino de Zilva Wickremasinghe (died 1937) was an epigraphist and archeologist of Sri Lanka.[1] He worked as an assistant to H. C. P. Bell as served as the epigraphist to the Ceylon Government.[2] He became archaeological commissioner after Bell, preceding Senarath Paranavitana in that position. His most important contribution was serving as editor and part author of the first two volumes of Epigraphia Zeylanica, a key source for the early history of Ceylon. He handed responsibility for volume 3 of Epigraphia Zeylanica to Paranavitana "...owing to reasons of health and the multifarious duties at the University of London."[3] During his time in London, Wickremasinghe prepared a catalogue of the Sinhalese books in the library of the British Museum.[4]

Leading articles

Wickremasinghe, M. d. Z. (1901). "Art. XIII.—The Semitic Origin of the Indian Alphabet." Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (New Series) 33(2): 301-305.

Wickremasinghe, M. d. Z. (1931). "On the Etymology and Interpretation of Certain Words and Phrases in the Aśoka Edicts." BSOAS 6(2): 545-548.

Notes

  1. ↑ Wickremasinghe's death reported in Paranavitana, "Preface," Epigraphia Zeylanica 4 (1934-1941) (London, 1943): p. iii.
  2. ↑ Review of Epigraphia Zeylanica, vol. 1 by E. Müller in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland (Jan., 1905), pp. 183-186.
  3. ↑ Senarath Paranavitana, "Preface," Epigraphia Zeylanica 3 (1928-1933) (London, 1933): p. iii.
  4. ↑ Don Martino de Zilva Wickremasinghe, Catalogue of the Sinhalese printed books in the library of the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1901). Online catalogue: http://copac.ac.uk/search?&author=Don+Martino+de+Zilva+Wickremasinghe+&sort-order=ti%2C-date

External links

Inscriptions of Ceylon http://www.royalasiaticsociety.lk/inscriptions/?q=node/3