chandrika

A book is a thing made of printed pages bound with a cover. As food gives strength to our body, books give knowledge to our mind.

There are many kinds of books written about various subjects. The books on various religious are the most important of them. That is because a man without a religion is a horse without a bridle.

Besides them, there are many others books written on various subjects like Arts, science, literature, philosophy, Law etc… They all feed us with knowledge.

We begin our company with books in our childhood it self. Many of them fall in to our association when we are in school. Those who do not read books are not knowledgeable people. They have a very poor knowledge about their surrounding and the world. They are like frogs in the well.

Some books written by great others are admired as   priceless treasures. Although man is mortal such books are immortal.

Books serve every body in the same way. There fore books are the most reliable friends of man.

The bee is a small flying insect. It is black and yellow in color. The bees live in large group in remote forest and jungle.

Bees are very useful because they produce honey. The honey is contained in a structure of cells called the honey comb. This is considered as an extraordinary construction.

The bees seem to believe in a “Queen rather than a King.” For their leadership. In their kingdom. All the bees have been assigned with different tasks. Some make the cells some fly away in search of nectar. Some remain there to guard the honey comb. Although the queen does not any work the important task of laying eggs is done by her.

The bees display the importance of unity and team work. Some times their bee comb are snatched by wild animals like bears or some times by people. In such occasions the bees become roused and angry start attacking the enemies unsympathetically. Their sting is very much painful. It is a nature’s gift that they have got for their protection.

To make a bee hive, the bees need nectar from hundred thousand of flowers. So they fly in swarms miles and miles in search of flowers.

Honey is a natural food with a sweet taste. Not only as a food, is it also used as a medicine. It is said that it possesses a strong healing power and is used especially in Ayurvedhic medicine

As it is very difficult to find naturally made bee hives, now people stared bee cultivation in order to produce honey on large scale.

As the bee is a very active insect an active person is also nick named a bee.

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The cow is a domestic animal. It feeds only on plants. There fore it belongs to the class of herbivores. The cow produces by humans all over the world. Other milk produce like curd, ghee, cheese, powdered milk.

Rearing of cow is a common and traditional feature of the rural areas of our country. By selling this milk and the other milk products the homemade curd,ghee,etc. The villagers easily supplement their daily income.

With the milk this produced different kinds of milk products including many varieties of milk powder are manufactured and distributed all through the world for human consumption. So its no exaggeration says that every human begging is indebted to this innocent animal. The cow for his strength.

Yet at times, man turns very much uncivilized and ungrateful. This innocent animal so much loyal and use full to us is dragged unsympathetically to the abattoir to be slaughtered for her flesh.

The place above the earth that we can see when we look up is called the sky.

In the morning the sky brightens with the rays of the rising sun.. Some times it appears like a blue canopy with masses of white clouds fluting below it. At such times people say, “It’ nice weather today”

At the sun moves up gradually and reaches the top of the sky, the moon ends and afternoon begin. Towards the end of the afternoon, the sky becomes beautifully colored. The birds too leave their nets and start flying in the sky. The kites flown by little children too look like birds of different structures fling here and there in the sky.

The dark  clouds in the sky means that a rain is coming. When the rain down we  wonder what a huge  mass of water  has been carried up to the sky. From seams and rivers as tiny drop.

But the most beautiful art of “ran bow” appears as a huge. Colorful arch a cross the sky.

To wards the end of day. When the sun goes down the horizon the western sky becomes magnificently colored.

With the advent of night the sky becomes dark and still. But on the night when the moon appears. The whole of the sky get adorned with a canopy of glorious starts.

Although a comet or the milky way is seen once in a blue moon in the sky. There are not the only mysterious entities that stand hidden behind the curtain of the sky.

Vesak festival is the most important religious festival of the Buddhists. It falls in the month of May in every year. It is held to commemorate the birth, the enlightenment and the death of Lord Buddha. All those three great incidents have occurred on the same day which we call the “VESAK FULL MOON DAY” This is the happiest day for all the Buddhists.

People celebrate this day in different ways. Many people decorate their houses with festoons and beautiful vesak lanterns. The Buddhist flags could be seen flying in temples, houses and even in streets.

Temple are crowded with devotees all clad in white. Almost all go to temples for offering flowers to Lord Buddha and worshiping him. Those who have observed the eight precepts, spend the whole day in temples, sermons, meditation programs and many other meritorious activities are held at every temple. This grate is celebrated in similar way at all the Buddhist religious centers in other countries too.

Alms  giving ceremonies are mostly seen during these days. People conduct alms  giving centers called “DANSAL” day and night for the benefit of the    poor and the tired. At night the vesak full moon shines in the sky. Beautiful vesak lanterns glitter at every house hold, street are crowded with people, going to see pandols.

During these days all the slaughtering houses  throughout the country remains closed. No Destruction of life takes place any where in the country, on the Paya day. Some people

The famer is the person who provides us with our staple food rice. To perform this onerous task,he lives for the field early in the morning. Elad in a loin cloth and carrying a mamotee on this shoulder.

In the field he does a lot of work. He ploughs the field with the aid of two baffaloes yoked together and prepairs  it for paddy cultivation. He repairs the ridges and dams of the field.In this way he works at a streach sweating in the hot sun. In the mean time,his wife brings him the “Embula” or the mid meal.

After having short short time of rest after the lunch. under the shade of a tree by the field,he restarts his work and goes on working till dusk.

There fore the farmers are completed to seek the blessing of the gods and deities too for a good harvest.

Hence the famers profession is one that’s intermingled with religious beliefs and practices.

In addition to paddy cultivation some famers engage in chena cultivation and garden cultivation too. These two kinds of cultivation provide them with their basic domestic requirements.

In the past the economy of our contry solely depended on paddy cultivation. There fore the famer was recognized  as a very important person in those days. That’s way the golden saying “FARMER IS THE GOG” has been formed in our folk-lore.

Fruits make an important part of the our food. They taste and smell sweet. Different countries have their own varieties of fruits.

The fruits like Bananas,Mangoes,Pineapples and Papaws grown in our country are called tropical fruits.They are popular all over the world. In addition to them,there are village fruits like “Guava”,Narang”,Jambo,Anoda,Veralu,etc.Although especialy small children are very fond of these sweet village fruits unfortunately they have been fast disappearing. 

Apples,Grapes,and Oranges that flourish well in mediterranean countries are produced on large scale and distributed all over the world.hence it is those fruits that dominate the fruits market all through the world.

The cocount tree grows well in tropical countries like Srilanka,Madagaskar,Bangladesh ect. It also as tall and straigh system like some other palm trees.As salty soil and sunshine are favourable for its growth. It graws well in coastal ereas. 

In fact it is the most use ful tree for us. No part of it is thrown away as useless. cocount leaves are used for seltering house. The young and tender leaves called “gokkola” are used for decorating purposes.The most useful part of the cocount tree is it’s nut. 

unt Cocount is mainly used for cooking purposes and for it’s cocount oil. The kernel of the young cocounts called “Kurumba”are very thirsty and their milk too is very sweet.

Last day I went to Samadi Nikethana Buddhist center. It is stuateded in Diyakobala,Bibile. I studies DTP cause.(Desctop Publishing & Desiging. cause teacher is Mr.Krishan. I very like studies that cause.

Our temple name is Wilathigoda royal temple.called, sri sadhdharmodaya  temple.It is situated in Monaraga district, Bibile erea Pitakumbura village.There was a lake in wilathigoda  is Kawanthissa kings days. Because ,It  famouse  wilathigoda.