Chap. II.] 



DAGOBAS AT ANARAJAPOORA. 



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heads of elephants, whose concealed bodies appear to be 

 supporting the structure. Around it the pious care of 

 the Buddliists has preserved numerous memorials of its 

 fomider ; an octagonal inscribed cohnnn, wliich the 

 legends say once stood in the centre of the space now 

 occupied by the great dagoba^ ; a slab which marks the 

 spot where Dutugaimunu died-, and a stone with carved 

 pilasters which covers his tomb. On the south side of 

 the terrace is a statue of King Batiya Tissa, who reigned 

 at the dawning of the Christian era ; and in front is the 

 entrance to the subterranean passage by which it is pre- 

 tended that the priest conducted him privately to view 

 the interior of the dagoba.^ 



Eastward from the Euanwelle dagoba is that known 

 as the Abhayagiri, erected by Walagam Bahu to comme- 

 morate the recovery of his throne after the expulsion of 

 the Malabars, B.C. 87.* Wlien entire, it was the most 

 stupendous in Ceylon, ha\ing been originaUy four hun- 

 dred and five feet liigh from the ground to the summit 

 of the spke. After a lapse of nearly two thousand years, 

 and after undergoing frequent reductions and restora- 



ThOparama. 

 Built B.C. 307. 



MlKlSlWKTTIYA. 



Built u.c. IGl. 



Abhavagiki. 



Built B.C. 87. 

 Heiglit, Kaitius, 180 ft. 

 To the Spire, 2-14 ft. 



RUANWELLE. 



Built B.C. 137. 

 Height ill 1830, IS'J ft. 



Javtawanarama. 



Built A.D. '275. 

 Height, Radius, 1>*0 ft. 

 To the Spire, 24'J It. 



r^ 



Ul^V^ 



Lanka Ramaya. 

 Built A.D. 276. 



COMPAHATIVE DIMENSIONS OF THE aEVEBAL DAGOBAS Al ANAEAJAIOORA. 



' Malunvanso, cli. xxix. p. 109. 

 "^ Ih'id. cli. xxxii. 



^ Ihid. cli. xxiv. See a notice of 

 this traditiou in the chapter on Sin- 



glialose literature, Vol. I. Pt. iv. ch. x. 

 ■» Mahaicanm, ch. xxxiii. p. 200 ; 

 Rajaratnncari, p. 41 ; see ante, \o\. 

 I. Pt. HI. ch. iv. p. a4G. 



