page_title: G. P. Wickramarachchi
section_title: Early life and education
hierarchical_section_title: G. P. Wickramarachchi / Early life and education
caption_attribution_description: English: Photograph of Velum Perera Wickramarachchi (Father of Pandit G. P. Wickramarachchi)
context_page_description: Gabriyal Perera Wickramarachchi also known as Ayurveda Chakravarti Pandit Wickramarachchi was a distinguished eminent Ceylonese Ayurvedic physician, author, linguist, senator, lawyer, lecturer and a philanthropist who founded Gampaha Siddhayurveda Vidyalaya which later became Gampaha Wickramarachchi Ayurveda Institute of University of Kelaniya.
context_section_description: Wickramarachchi was born on 28 September 1889 in Nadungamuwa Gampaha as the third son of the family to Velum Perera Wickramarachchi, an indigenous medical practitioner and his wife Sara Nona Dharmawathi. He received his primary education at Henegama Government School and secondary education at Uttharamulla Pirivena. He entered the Vidyodaya Pirivena in circa.1909 and graduated in oriental languages in 1913 with the title Rajakiya Pandit. In 1917 he sat for the notary exam and became a notary,in that same year he won a scholarship to Jamini Bhushan Ray Ashtanga Ayurvedic Vidyalaya in Calcutta. After three years of studying there he earned his degree of LAMS (Hons) in 1920 and the degree of Kaviranjan from Kaliya Ayurveda Bavan in 1921. Pandit Wickramarachchi married Adhikari Appuhamilage Sumanawathi Jayasundara in 1924, with whom he had one son and three daughters.
caption: Father, Velum Perera Wickramarachchi Veda Ralahamy.
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