Chelvadurai Manogaran, Ethnic Conflict and Reconciliation in Sri Lanka, University of Hawaii Press, , 25–26 p. (ISBN978-0824811167, lire en ligne)
Kitsiri Malalgoda, Buddhism in Sinhalese Society, 1750-1900: A Study of Religious Revival and Change, University of California Press, (ISBN0520028732, lire en ligne), p. 29