Author who had very close links with the Sacred Temple of the Tooth, the Dalada Maligava, traces the evolution of the Kandy Asala ahara since its inception over 1600 years ago during the reign of King Kirti Sri Meghavanna. He refers to ancient texts, the Dalada Sirita, Culavamsa, etc, and other descriptions by Robert Knox, Davy, Millawa Disava, C.E. Godakumbura, etc, complementing the text with porting rare photographs giving an insight into the rituals within the Dalada Maligava. He makes the reader fully aware of this pageant great aesthetic and socio-cultural value in Ceylon (as this country was then called, now Sri Lanka) held annually in the lunar month of la (July/August)                                                                                                                                           
Prof. Anuradha Seneviratna who graduated from Peradeniya University in 1965 obtained his Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1968 from the University of Halle in Germany. He joined the academic staff of the Colombo University in the same year as a turer in Sinhala. He joined the Peradeniya University in 1973 Senior Lecturer in Sinhala and served in that capacity until 34. During this period he also served as the Director of the itute of Aesthetic Studies in Colombo. He won the Fulbright earch Fellowship in 1977 and served as a Research Associate the University of Indiana, and later in the University of fornia. He was promoted as Associate Professor in the partment of Sinhala in 1984, and served in that position till 21. In 1988, he won the Commonwealth Academic Staff owship and was elected to a Visiting fellowship at the itute of Social Anthropology in the Oxford University. In 1, he was promoted a full Professor and in 1996 as a Senior fessor in which capacity he served till his retirement from University in February 2004. He was appointed Senior ow of the University of London in 1998 and was the Visiting fessor of Sinhala, Pali and Buddhism for two years. He was awarded the Emeritus Professor status by the University uncil on his retirement.                                                   
According to a recent bibliography prepared by the Peradeniya University he has written nearly seventy books in Sinhala and English, and many research articles and newspaper articles.
He was conferred the highest National Award 'Kalakirti' by the Government of Sri Lanka in 1991 and the honorary title 'Dharma Sastra Visarada Kirti Sri' in the same year by the Malwatte Maha Vihara in Kandy in recognition of his services to Arts, Literature, Education and Culture. He also won the State Literary Award thrice for his published books in English and was also the President of the Arts Council of Sri Lanka.
The Central Provincial Council at a public reception held in Kandy in the year 2007 honoured him for his services rendered to the country, over the last fifty years. Similarly the Kandy Municipal Council unanimously named a municipal road at Katugastota after him calling it "Professor Anuradha Seneviratna Mawatha" in recognition of his services.