He entered the Vidyodaya Pirivena circa.1909 and graduated in oriental languages in 1913 with the title Rajakiya Pandit.

The same year he won a scholarship to Jamini Bhushan Ray Ashtanga Ayurvedic Vidyalaya in Calcutta.

Pandit Wickramarachchi married Adhikari Appuhamilage Sumanawathi Jayasundara in 1924, with whom he had one son and three daughters.

Pandit Wickramarachchi started his professional career at Gampaha and became the prominent Ayurveda practitioner at that time.

Wickramarachchi Veda Ralahami was a well disciplined devout Buddhist and rendered his service as the Editor of Sinhala Bauddhaya from 1914 to 1917 in request of the Buddhist revival leader Srimath Anagarika Dharmapala.