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Harischandra Wijayatunga

Wijayatunga Mudalige Harischandra Wijayatunga (; born 25 October 1931) is a Sri Lankan author, translator, lexicographer, teacher, lawyer and politician. He held various offices in different institutions of the Government of Sri Lanka. Wijayatunga is the current leader of the Motherland People's Party, and was the party's candidate for president in 1994 and 1999.

Wijayatunga is the compiler of the ''Practical Sinhala Dictionary'' (1982) and ''Gunasena Great Sinhala Dictionary'', considered to be the most comprehensive Sinhala-Sinhala dictionaries to date. Wijayatunga also proposed scientific ideas to standardise the Sinhala script. Provided by Wikipedia