METIGAHA AREGALGE

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

A kind of rock shelter is said to be situated at a distance of one hour on foot in an unidentified direction from –>Ballawalaboka Galge in the hills above the village of Danigala (note 1). ETYMOLOGY: Metigaha Aregalge (SARASIN & SARASIN 1908; DERANIYAGALA, S U 1980: 155) once had been corrupted into an Anglo-Pashtun almost-as-Farsi looking Matighara Cave (Brooks, S J 1995 Mss, item no. 13).CULTURAL HISTORY: Archaeological excavation down to the bedrock yielded historical findings (SARASIN & SARASIN 1908; DERANIYAGALA 1980: 155).A kind of rock shelter is said to be situated at a distance of one hour on foot in an unidentified direction from –>Ballawalaboka Galge in the hills above the village of Danigala (note 1). ETYMOLOGY: Metigaha Aregalge (SARASIN & SARASIN 1908; DERANIYAGALA, S U 1980: 155) once had been corrupted into an Anglo-Pashtun almost-as-Farsi looking Matighara Cave (Brooks, S J 1995 Mss, item no. 13).CULTURAL HISTORY: Archaeological excavation down to the bedrock yielded historical findings (SARASIN & SARASIN 1908; DERANIYAGALA 1980: 155).