Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Sri Lanka Matha is the national anthem of Sri Lanka. Original song was written and tuned by Rabindranath Tagore. Later it was translated and composed by the Ananda Samarakoon in 1940, and was later adopted as the national anthem in 1951. It was written when Sri Lanka was still a British colony and was initially written as a tribute to Sri Lanka, expressing sentiments of freedom, unity and independence, and not for the purpose of serving as a national anthem.. }
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- Sri_Lanka_Matha comment "Sri Lanka Matha is the national anthem of Sri Lanka. Original song was written and tuned by Rabindranath Tagore. Later it was translated and composed by the Ananda Samarakoon in 1940, and was later adopted as the national anthem in 1951. It was written when Sri Lanka was still a British colony and was initially written as a tribute to Sri Lanka, expressing sentiments of freedom, unity and independence, and not for the purpose of serving as a national anthem.".