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Punanai
Sign in to savePunanai (; ; sometimes spelled Punani) is a small hamlet in Sri Lanka, made famous in 1920 by a man-eating leopard. This is reflected in the book titled The Man-Eater of Punanai: A Journey of Discovery to the Jungles of Old Ceylon, by Christopher Ondaatje.
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The entry is geolocated on the map in city, across 2 mapped points.
Vinony's link graph records 8 inbound references to Punanai, and connects out to Sri Lanka, village and Tamil.
It sits within the topics Koralaipattu West DS Division and Villages in Batticaloa District.
Vinony links it to 6 Wikipedia language editions.
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- Instance of
- human settlement
- Country
- Sri Lanka
- Located in
- Batticaloa District
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30
- Image
- Batticaloa - Polonnaruwa Road (near Punanai).JPG
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Punanai (; ; sometimes spelled Punani) is a small hamlet in Sri Lanka, made famous in 1920 by a man-eating leopard. This is reflected in the book titled The Man-Eater of Punanai: A Journey of Discovery to the Jungles of Old Ceylon, by Christopher Ondaatje.
==References==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Punanai” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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