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Sagara Palansuriya

Died in 1961

Palansuriya Mohottalalage Dingiri Mahaththaya was born on 11 March 1908 in Kalalella, in Ratnapura district. He entered the monastic order, under the name Kalalelle Ananda Sagara, and studied at Santiniketan, in India. Returning to lay life under the name Sagara Palansuriya, he taught at Ananda College and Nalanda College in Colombo and signed his verse Keyas. Elected member of parliament for Horana in 1956, he died in June 1961, aged fifty-three.

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