KADIGOMUWA NITRE CAVE

Kegalle (Kegalle District - LK)
7.250000,80.333300
Grottocenter / carte

Description

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

From the district of the four Korles (note 1), DAVY (1821: 31 note) lists the nitre-cave … 19. Kodigomoova. ETYMOLOGY: These names, it may be clearly remarked, are not those of the caves themselves, which are generally nameless, but of the nearest inhabited places … (DAVY 1821: 31 note). SITUATION: At an unspecified location somewhere in the vicinity of an inhabited place (note 2) called Kodigomoova (DAVY 1821) or Kadigomuwa (note 3).From the district of the four Korles (note 1), DAVY (1821: 31 note) lists the nitre-cave … 19. Kodigomoova. ETYMOLOGY: These names, it may be clearly remarked, are not those of the caves themselves, which are generally nameless, but of the nearest inhabited places … (DAVY 1821: 31 note). SITUATION: At an unspecified location somewhere in the vicinity of an inhabited place (note 2) called Kodigomoova (DAVY 1821) or Kadigomuwa (note 3).

Documents

Bibliography 06/01/2018
  • Davy, John 1821.

History

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

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