DIULANAGODA CAVE 1

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

One of the two drip-ledged caves (note 1) on the gently rising, rocky hill Diulanagoda contains a white limestone image of the Buddha, eight feet [2.54 m], the crown of which touching the cave's roof (CEYLON TRAVELLER 1974: ?; 1983: 172). SITUATION: From Kumana (note 2) twenty miles (32 km) along a jeep track up the Kumbukkan oya (note 3), where Miocene limestone occurs (note 4), … and then half a mile to the North, the gently rising, rocky, the Diulanagoda or Diulanegoda (note 5) is surmounted by the crumbling remains of a dagaba. The hill appears to be terraced [sea-level?] and has two long flights of steps cut into the rock, leading from two directions to the summit (CEYLON TRAVELLER 1983: 172). CAVE POTENTIAL: Some other speleologically relevant items on the Kumbukkan Oya (N06°30': E081°42') are the –>Habessa -rock cave- (N06°42': E081°19') and the –>Viharegala -caves- (N06°39': E081°39').One of the two drip-ledged caves (note 1) on the gently rising, rocky hill Diulanagoda contains a white limestone image of the Buddha, eight feet [2.54 m], the crown of which touching the cave's roof (CEYLON TRAVELLER 1974: ?; 1983: 172). SITUATION: From Kumana (note 2) twenty miles (32 km) along a jeep track up the Kumbukkan oya (note 3), where Miocene limestone occurs (note 4), … and then half a mile to the North, the gently rising, rocky, the Diulanagoda or Diulanegoda (note 5) is surmounted by the crumbling remains of a dagaba. The hill appears to be terraced [sea-level?] and has two long flights of steps cut into the rock, leading from two directions to the summit (CEYLON TRAVELLER 1983: 172). CAVE POTENTIAL: Some other speleologically relevant items on the Kumbukkan Oya (N06°30': E081°42') are the –>Habessa -rock cave- (N06°42': E081°19') and the –>Viharegala -caves- (N06°39': E081°39').