490 Captain Caaruan on the City of Anarijapura 
thousand and twenty-six feet above the plain below, which I should think 
must be very near the truth. 
On the eastern side of the area are the dwellings of the priests, &c.5 
above which a bare rock of granite rises abruptly. This rock is sur- 
mounted at its very sumntit, which is far from easy of access, by a heap of 
stones, which the piety of pilgrims had brought from a distance; thus 
forming a heap precisely similar in character to those met with in Scotland 
and in the Alps. 
The Mideliar had ascended a part of this mass of granite, and was so 
delighted with the view that he induced me to follow. It certainly did 
not require the association of country or of religious feeling to produce a 
strong impression on the mind, when thus looking down upon those, I 
may say, stupendous monuments, which the same morning had towered 
like giants over our heads. From this elevated position, I observed a 
great number of small dagobas in almost every direction, and was in- 
formed that there are no less than three hundred and sixty around this spot. 
On the following morning we proceeded on our route to Dambul and Kandy, 
and on our way down the hill observed two large slabs of red granite placed 
in an erect position, with a long inscription on each. We were informed 
that the character was Sanscrit; but the sun was gaining power, and we 
had not time to attempt to copy them. 
Frequent mention is made of J/ehentélé in the three histories before men- 
tioned, from which the following extracts will suffice: ‘* The said Meninpvu, 
with the above-mentioned Dewainery Parissz, established the religion of 
Bupnv, possessed many precious relics, and likewise a precious stone, in which 
was a winding cavity running eight times round the same, which had been 
given by the god Saxxrata to the king Coosa, and had been transmitted 
until it fell into the hands of Darmasoca. This king, in order to preserve 
the relic of Bupuu, having taken the golden hair which grew on the 
middle of the forehead of Bupuu, which hair had seven ringlets, he artfully 
wrought the same into the said precious stone, and having given the relic 
to his son the said Mentnpumav, it was by him brought to Ceylon, and 
deposited upon the rock called Jacgiri Parwata, and a monument of stone 
erected over the same.” (Rdjaratnacari, p. 34.) Dewant Patisse is also 
mentioned in the J/ahavansi as having caused houses or caverns to be made 
in the rock called Meentelau, as also “ with having caused the conical 
building to be constructed on Meentelau, in which Bupuu’s bone, which 
