MINA DAPU GALGE

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

No size is known of an allegedly large and habitable cave / rock shelter (Brooks 1995 Mss), which is either a rock shelter (DERANIYAGALA 1965: 144 figure 21) or a true cave with an inhabitable entrance area. ETYMOLOGY: The Sinhala -galge- means a rock shelter while -lena- is a cave but I saw this item called, spelled, transcribed or edited as Mina dapu galge (rock-shelter) DERANIYAGALA, P E P (1965: 144 figure 21) Mulagama Cave (note 1) nima.mil/geonames (accessed 16.11.2003)Mullegama Galge cave / rock shelter Brooks (1995 Mss, no. 17) after DERANIYAGALA, S U (1980: 157)SITUATION 1: Brooks (1995 Mss, no. 17) places Mullegama Galge in an unidentified spatial relation near to one village of Ambilinne (unidentified). SITUATION 2: Judging from the position N07°15': E081°29' (WGS84), Mulagama Cave lies north of the Gal Oya National Park (Senanayaka Samudraya Sanctuary N07°10': E081°32') where Mullegama is shown on my issue of the -Road Map of Sri Lanka (Survey Department 1977). CULURAL HISTORY: Archaeological investigation yielded historic finds (Brooks 1995 Mss, item no. 17 after DERANIYAGALA 1980: 157).URAL HISTORY: Archaeological investigation yielded historic finds (Brooks 1995 Mss, item no. 17 after DERANIYAGALA 1980: 157).