GODEGEDARA VIHARA CAVE

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

A so-called cave temple (CEYLON TRAVELLER 1983: 349), which may consist of a modified natural rock shelter (true cave?) used as a temple cave, contains rock art (drawings, paintings). SITUATION (CEYLON TRAVELLER 1974: ?; 1983: 349): At the Godegedara vihara, which lies at a travelling distance of about ten miles or 16 km from an unspecified starting point (Badulla?) down the Badulla - Godegama road (note 1). CULTURAL HISTORY - rock art: (CEYLON TRAVELLER 1983: 349): … three Buddha statues with wooden core and finished in plaster. Drawings of the seven weeks after the attainment of Buddhahood are on the walls inside a cave temple [sic! prob. qua: temple cave]. The ambulatory walls carry paintings of the birthstones of the Buddha.A so-called cave temple (CEYLON TRAVELLER 1983: 349), which may consist of a modified natural rock shelter (true cave?) used as a temple cave, contains rock art (drawings, paintings). SITUATION (CEYLON TRAVELLER 1974: ?; 1983: 349): At the Godegedara vihara, which lies at a travelling distance of about ten miles or 16 km from an unspecified starting point (Badulla?) down the Badulla - Godegama road (note 1). CULTURAL HISTORY - rock art: (CEYLON TRAVELLER 1983: 349): … three Buddha statues with wooden core and finished in plaster. Drawings of the seven weeks after the attainment of Buddhahood are on the walls inside a cave temple [sic! prob. qua: temple cave]. The ambulatory walls carry paintings of the birthstones of the Buddha.