GAETYAGAMMA ROCK TEMPLE

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

Along with a dagoba, there is a dilapidated rock temple of unspecified nature and character said to have been mentioned in a … description of ruins … furnished to me by the native whom I sent to copy inscriptions; and his account was afterwards confirmed by inhabitants from that district (FORBES 1840, 1841, 2: 97). SITUATION: Unidentified. Possibly within the Wasgomuwa Natural Reserve: Farther down from the junction of the Heerattee-oya (note 1) with the Ambanganga or Amban Ganga and Ambang Ganga (note 2), … the river, for a distance of three miles [about 5 km], winds so as nearly to surround extensive ruins, now known by the name of Maluwaya [note 3]. This place is overgrown with jungle, and the principal remains are described as three buildings situated at some distance from each other. One of these, founded on a rock in which there is an excavated chamber, is called the –>Patrippooa; at each of the others there is a stone trough, one of them formed in the rock, the other having ben removed to its present situation. A long inscription, in an old form of Cingalese, was discovered in the vicinity of these buildings. The river, previously to being joined by a considerable stream, the Kaluganga [note 4], rushes through a narrow chasm called Namalkumara-ella [note 5], and forms a large and very deep basin beneath the fall (FORBES 1840, 1841, 2: 96-97).en removed to its present situation. A long inscription, in an old form of Cingalese, was discovered in the vicinity of these buildings. The river, previously to being joined by a considerable stream, the Kaluganga [note 4], rushes through a narrow chasm called Namalkumara-ella [note 5], and forms a large and very deep basin beneath the fall (FORBES 1840, 1841, 2: 96-97).