# Maya Ranjan

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'''Mahanama Rajapaksha''' (1913 – 16 November 1968), who wrote under the pseudonym '''Maya Ranjan''', was a prominent [Sinhala](/source/Sinhalese_language) writer and schoolteacher from [Sri Lanka](/source/Sri_Lanka).<ref name="Silumina">{{cite web|url =https://www.silumina.lk/2017/10/28/%E0%B7%83%E0%B6%AD%E0%B7%8A%E0%B6%B8%E0%B6%A9%E0%B6%BD/%E0%B6%B8%E0%B7%8F%E0%B6%BA%E0%B7%8F%E0%B6%BB%E0%B6%82%E0%B6%A2%E0%B6%B1%E0%B7%8A-%E0%B6%B1%E0%B6%B8%E0%B7%90%E0%B6%AD%E0%B7%92-%E0%B6%BB%E0%B7%83%E0%B7%80%E0%B7%8F%E0%B6%AF%E0%B7%92%E0%B6%BA%E0%B7%8F|title =මායාරංජන් නමැති රසවාදියා (Maya-Ranjan, the Enthralled) |first =Chandrasiri|last =Senevirathna|website =සිළුමිණ, ප්‍රථම සතිඅන්ත සිංහල අන්තර්ජාල පුවත්පත by Lake House |date =August 12, 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://archives.sundayobserver.lk/2012/03/18/mon03.asp |title=Pioneer writers in Sinhala literature |author=Indeewara Thilakarathne |website=Sunday Observer |access-date=18 March 2012}}</ref>

His [magnum opus](/source/Masterpiece) ''Digaamadulle Aashcharyaya'' ({{langx|si|දිගාමඬුල්ලේ ආශ්චර්යය|lit=The Enchantment of Digaamadulla}}), published in 1957, was important to [Sri Lankan literature](/source/Sri_Lankan_literature) and established him the country's pioneering wildlife non-fiction writer.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://lankanewspage.com/?p=12954 |title=නෙල්ලිකැලේ බුරියාද මායා රංජන් ද |author=[Thilak Senasinghe](/source/Thilak_Senasinghe) |website=www.lankanewspage.com |access-date=31 July 2019}}</ref>

He also translated [Homer](/source/Homer)'s [Iliad](/source/Iliad) and [Odyssey](/source/Odyssey) and [Sir Walter Scott](/source/Walter_Scott)'s [Ivanhoe](/source/Ivanhoe) into Sinhala.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.booksbay.lk/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=644 |title=ත්‍රෝජපුර සංග්‍රාමය |author=Maya-Ranjan |website=www.booksbay.lk |access-date=17 August 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.booksbay.lk/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=554 |title=වන සංග්‍රාමය |author=Maya-Ranjan |website=www.booksbay.lk |access-date=17 August 2023}}</ref>

== Publications ==
=== Own work ===
* ''Digaamadulle Aashcharyaya'' (දිගාමඬුල්ලේ ආශ්චර්යය/The Enchantment of Digaamadulla)
* ''Pitisara Minissu'' (පිටිසර මිනිස්සු/Rural Folks)
* ''Mage Raajyaya'' (මගේ රාජ්‍යය/My Kingdom)
* ''Ape Raajyaya'' (අපේ රාජ්‍යය/Our Kingdom)
* ''Kalisama saha Sukumari'' (කලිසම සහ සුකුමාරි/ Sukumari's Pants)
* ''Weediya Bandara'' (වීදිය බණ්ඩාර)
* ''Neela'' (නීලා)
* ''Kumaraya saha Ran Menika'' (කුමාරයා සහ රං මැණිකා/The Prince and Ran Menika)
* ''Heenen gae suwandha'' (හීනෙන් ගෑ සුවඳ/Dreamed Fragrance)
* ''Sahodarayo denna'' (සහෝදරයෝ දෙන්නා/Brothers)
* ''Pandukhabaya'' (පණ්ඩුකාභය)
* ''Prema Poojawa'' (ප්‍රේම පූජාව/Romantic devotion)
* ''Atalle upan Kumariya'' (අටල්ලේ උපන් කුමරිය/The Princess who was born in Atalla)
* ''Nirbheetha punchi sannaliya'' (නිර්භීත පුංචි සන්නාලිය/The gallant little dressmaker)

=== Translations ===
* ''Throejapura Sangramaya'' (ත්‍රෝජපුර සංග්‍රාමය) - translation of Iliad and Odyssey
* ''Wana Sangramaya'' (වන සංග්‍රාමය) - translation of Ivanhoe

==References==
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