Rathnapuren Lyrics
“Rathnapuren gena aa saman mal suwandin hada purawa” (රත්නපුරෙන් ගෙන ආ සමන් මල් සුවඳින් හද පුරවා), Rathnapuren (රත්නපුරෙන්) lyrics: a Sinhala patriotic song sung by Harshana Disanayake, with words by Sunil Dayananda Koonara, presented here in Sinhala script, Singlish transliteration, English translation and the meaning explained. In Sinhala it is රත්නපුරෙන් ගී පද.
| SONG | Rathnapuren |
|---|---|
| SINGER | Harshana Disanayake |
| LYRICIST | Sunil Dayananda Koonara |
| CATEGORY | Patriotic |
| VIEWS | 1 |
| UPDATED |
Rathnapuren Lyrics Singlish
Rathnapuren gena aa saman mal suwandin hada purawa
Kala wawe sudu nelum nelaagena dotha pura
Ruhunupuren nelala kela mal suwanda kokum thawara
Alimankada thotamunata wela api
Bala indinawa.. Nagadeepaye doragulu harena thura
Jayasirima bo haamuduruwane mahapelaharak mawa
Dewndarin yaapa patunata ekama bathak idena dinak
Apata udakala manawi yalith
Pansala palliya kovila paamula
Gugura yana wedihanda athare
Pupura yanne miniskamayi
Mihidan wu eka le binduwaka wath
Liyawee thibunada jaathiye namak
Anaatha kandawuru doralaga parawena
Kakulu malak wimasa balan
Un illanne ratin adak nowa
Jiwath wannata heta dawasathරත්නපුරෙන් ගී පද
රත්නපුරෙන් ගෙන ආ සමන් මල් සුවඳින් හද පුරවා
කළා වැවේ සුදු නෙලුම් නෙලාගෙන දෝත පුරා
රුහුණුපුරෙන් නෙළලා කෑල මල් සුවඳ කොකුම් තවරා
අලිමංකඩ තොටමුණට වෙලා අපි
බලා ඉඳිනවා..නාගදීපයේ දොරගුළු හැරෙන තුරා
ජයසිරිමා බෝ හාමුදුරුවනේ මහපෙලහරක් මවා
දෙව්න්දරින් යාපා පටුනට එකම බතක් ඉදෙනා දිනක්
අපට උදාකළ මැනවි යලිත්
පන්සල පල්ලිය කෝවිල පාමුල
ගුගුරා යන වෙඩිහඬ අතරේ
පුපුරා යන්නේ මිනිස්කමයි
මිහිඳන් වූ ඒක ලේ බිඳුවක වත්
ලියැවී තිබුනද ජාතියේ නමක්
අනාත කඳවුරු දොරළඟ පරවෙන
කැකුළු මලක් විමසා බලන්
උන් ඉල්ලන්නේ රටින් අඩක් නොව
ජිවත් වන්නට හෙට දවසත්Rathnapuren Lyrics English Translation
Filling the heart with the scent of saman flowers brought from Ratnapura
gathering handfuls of white lotuses from Kala Wewa
from Ruhunu, plucked and daubed with fragrant kokum blossoms
we stand waiting at the Alimankada crossing
watching.. until the doors of Nagadeepa open
O Jayasrimaha Bodhi, work a great miracle
a day when a single pot of rice cooks from Dewundara to Yapa Patuna
may you bring it to us once again
at the foot of temple, church, and kovil
amid the roar of gunfire
what shatters is our humanity
On even one drop of that buried blood,
was the name of any nation ever written?
Go and ask a withering flower bud
fading at the door of an orphans’ camp
they are asking not for half the country
but only to live, to see tomorrow
English translation by the Lyrics LK editorial team and community contributors, many of them native Sinhala speakers. Translations are interpretive and may not capture every nuance of the original Sinhala. Anyone can register to submit a translation, suggest a correction to this one, or add a song that is missing.
Rathnapuren Song Meaning and Interpretation
This is a song for one undivided Sri Lanka, sung against the backdrop of war. It opens by gathering the whole island into a single embrace: saman flowers from Ratnapura, white lotuses from the ancient Kala Wewa tank, blossoms from Ruhunu in the deep south, and then it carries you north, to the Alimankada crossing (Elephant Pass) and the sacred island of Nagadeepa off Jaffna, waiting for its doors to open. In a few lines it has held the Sinhala south and the Tamil north in the same two hands.
At its heart is a prayer to the Jayasrimaha Bodhi for a miracle: a day when a single pot of rice could cook from Dewundara to Yapa Patuna, from the southern tip of Dondra all the way to Jaffna, the whole country eating as one family again. It sets temple, church, and kovil side by side, Buddhist, Christian, and Hindu together, and says that amid the roar of gunfire the thing that truly shatters is our humanity, not the land.
The last verse is the quietest and the hardest. On a single drop of buried blood, it asks, was the name of any nation ever written? Then go and ask a withering flower bud at the door of an orphans’ camp. They are not asking for half the country, only to be allowed to live and see tomorrow. It is a plea for peace over territory, carried by the image of a child who has lost everything.
Meaning written by the Lyrics LK editorial team and community contributors. It reflects our reading of the song and may differ from the artist's intent. Anyone can register to submit their own meaning, suggest a correction to this one, or add a song that is missing.