Lankaramaya
Lankarama is a stupa built by King Valagamba, in an ancient place at Galhebakada in the
ancient kingdom of Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka. Nothing is known about the ancient form of
the stupa, and later this was renovated. The ruins show that there are rows of
stone pillars and it is no doubt that there has been a house built encircling
the stupa (vatadage) to
cover it. The round courtyard of the stupa seems to be 3.0 meters (10 ft)
above the ground. The diameter of the stupa is 14 meters (45 ft). The
courtyard is circular in shape and the diameter is 406 meters (1,332 ft).
The
eth pokuna (elephant pond) is an ancient man-made pond situated close to
Lankaramaya. It is 159 meters (522 ft) in length, 52.7 meters
(173 ft) in width and 9.5 meters (31 ft) deep, with a holding
capacity of 75,000 m3 (2,600,000 cu ft) of water.
The
water to this pond is supplied from the Periyamkulama Tank through a network of
underground canals. These underground canals still work after several hundred
years. This tank was probably used by the monks in the Abhayagiri vihara (Buddhist
monastery), which at one time had over five thousand priests.
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