The song was written and composed by the Ananda Samarakoon in 1940, and was later adopted as the national anthem in 1951.

Ananda Samarakoon was Rabindranath Tagore's student and the tune is influenced by Tagore's genre of music.

Egodahage George Wilfred Alwis Samarakoon ( January 13, 1911 – April 5, 1962 ) ( known as Ananda Samarakoon ) was a Sri Lankan composer and musician.

* Farmwell-assembled by Samarakoon Tractor Industries Private Limited in Sri Lanka.

After six months he abandoned his studies and returned to Sri Lanka, and changed his name to Ananda Samarakoon, embracing Buddhism.

In 1945 Samarakoon's only son died at the age of five and the grieving Samarakoon left Sri Lanka for India where he pursued a painting career and held eleven art exhibitions there.

* Neville Samarakoon ( 1919-1990 ), Sri Lankan judge

Concerning popular music, Ananda Samarakoon developed the reflective and poignant Sarala gee style with his work in the late 1930s / early 1940s.

Samarakoon committed suicide in 1962 apparently due to the change in words.

In the wake of western and Indian proliferation in music, composer and singer Ananda Samarakoon emerged from training at Rabindranath Tagore's school at Shanthiketalan to develop a uniquely Sinhalese music tradition in 1939.

Amaradeva, trained at shantiniketan like Samarakoon, took up the " Sarala Gee " tradition along with experimentation of raaga forms.

On April 5, 1962, at the age of fifty one, Samarakoon committed suicide by taking an overdose of sleeping tablets and the cause is said to be the change of words of his composition without his consent.

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