PATRIPPOA CHAMBER

(Polonnaruwa District - LK)
7.800000,80.850000
Grottocenter / carte

Description

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

A dilapidated rock temple of unspecified nature and character said to have been mentioned (along with a dagoba) 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. vol. 2: 96). SITUATION: Unidentified. Possibly within the Wasgomuwa Natural Reserve and from the –>Gaetyagamma rock temple (note 1) at a distance of three miles (about 5 km) downstream along the Ambanganga or Amban Ganga and Ambang Ganga (note 2) and at a the extensive ruins, now known by the name of Maluwaya (note 3).A dilapidated rock temple of unspecified nature and character said to have been mentioned (along with a dagoba) 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. vol. 2: 96). SITUATION: Unidentified. Possibly within the Wasgomuwa Natural Reserve and from the –>Gaetyagamma rock temple (note 1) at a distance of three miles (about 5 km) downstream along the Ambanganga or Amban Ganga and Ambang Ganga (note 2) and at a the extensive ruins, now known by the name of Maluwaya (note 3).

Documents

Bibliography 06/01/2018
  • Forbes, Jonathan 1840, 1841.

History

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

Caves nearby

Distance (km)NameLength (m)Depth (m)
0.0GAETYAGAMMA ROCK TEMPLE
20.0SIGIRIYA ROCK SHELTER
20.0Aligala Galge
20.0COBRA HOOD CAVE, Sigiriya
20.0SIGIRIYA CAVE (KUSCH 1973)
20.0ASSANG CAVE, Sigiriya
20.7PIDURAGALA CAVE no. 1
20.7PIDURAGALA CAVE no. 2
22.2POTANA SHELTER