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    <title>Dictionary of the Sinhala language</title>
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    <title>Siṃhala śabdakōṣaya</title>
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    <namePart>Jayatilaka, D. B. (Don Baron)</namePart>
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    <namePart type="date">1868-1944</namePart>
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    <namePart>Geiger, Wilhelm</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1856-1943</namePart>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Smith, Helmer</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1882-1956</namePart>
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  <name type="corporate">
    <namePart>Ceylon Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society</namePart>
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  <name type="corporate">
    <namePart>University of Ceylon, Peradeniya</namePart>
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  <name type="corporate">
    <namePart>Sri Lanka</namePart>
    <namePart>Saṃskr̥tika Kaṭayutu piḷibanda Amātyāṃśaya.</namePart>
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    <publisher>The Royal Asiatic society, Ceylon branch</publisher>
    <dateIssued>1935-</dateIssued>
    <dateIssued encoding="marc" point="start">1935</dateIssued>
    <dateIssued encoding="marc" point="end">9999</dateIssued>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>v. ; 28 x 22 cm.</extent>
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  <note type="statement of responsibility">compiled under the direction of Professor Whilhelm Geiger ... by Sir D. B. Jayatilaka ... [and others]</note>
  <note>Vol. 1 pts. 7-11, 15 published by the University of Ceylon Press.</note>
  <note>Vol. 1, pt. 2- compiled under the direction of Wilhelm Geiger and Helmer Smith.</note>
  <note>Vol. 31, pt. 11 has title: Siṃhala śabdakōṣaya.</note>
  <note>Vol. 1, 18- have title: A dictionary of the Sinhala language.</note>
  <note>Vol. 1, pt. 16- has imprint: Ministry of Cultural Affairs, Colombo.</note>
  <note>"Begun by the Royal Asiatic Society, Ceylon Branch, and continued by the University of Ceylon, and now under the Ministry of Cultural Affairs."</note>
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    <topic>Sinhalese language</topic>
    <topic>Dictionaries</topic>
    <topic>English</topic>
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