References
- Dictionary of the World's Watercraft: from Aak to Zumbra, 2001. London.
- Doran, E. J., 1974, ‘Outrigger Ages’, Journal of the Polynesian Society 83, 130–40.
- Grainge, G., 2002, The Roman Channel Crossing of AD 43: the constraints on Claudius's naval strategy . BAR Brit. Ser. 332, Oxford.
- Grainge, G., 2009, Thoughts on the sailing qualities of the oru—and some afterthoughts, in G. Kapitän, Records of Traditional Watercraft from South and West Sri Lanka . NAS Monograph No. 2, Oxford.
- Hornell, J., 1943, The Fishing and Coastal Craft of Ceylon, Mariner's Mirror 29.1, 40–53.
- Jones, H. L., 1917, The Geography of Strabo, 8 vols. London and New York.
- Kapitän, G., 1987, Records of native craft in Sri Lanka—I: the single outrigger fishing canoe oruwa. Part 1. Sailing oru, IJNA 16, 135–47.
- Kapitän, G., 2009, Records of Traditional Watercraft from South and West Sri Lanka . NAS Monograph No. 2, Oxford.
- Lewis, D., 1994, We, the Navigators: the Ancient Art of Landfinding in the Pacific (2nd edn). Honolulu HI.
- Mcgrail, S., 1987, Ancient Boats in NW Europe: the Archaeology of Water Transport to AD 1500 . London and New York.
- Mcgrail, S. and Corlett, E., 1977, High speed capabilities of ancient boats, IJNA 6, 352–3.
- Marchaj, C. A., 1964, Sailing Theory and Practice. London.
- Meineke, J. A. F. A. 1852, Strabonis Geographica, 3 vols. Leipzig.
- Report of Commissioners Appointed to Inquire into the Sea‐Fisheries of Ceylon , 1867, Royal Asiatic Society Library, Colombo, Ref. Section 639.2 SL CEY and 003908.
- Vitharana, V., 1992, The Oru and the Yātrā. Dehiwala, Sri Lanka.
- Vitharana, V., 2009, The making of an oru in Sri Lanka, in G. Kapitän, Records of Traditional Watercraft from South and West Sri Lanka . NAS Monograph No. 2, Oxford.