Chap. II.] 



THE JAYTA-WANA-EAMA DAGOBA. 



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edifice still remain, and in front of tlicni is a semicircular 

 stone, similar in design to that at the entrance to the 

 great Wihara, but inferior in execution. Another re- 

 markable object in the same vicinity is a block of granite, 

 upwai'ds of ten feet in length, hollowed into a cistern, 

 whicli tradition has described as the trough of Dutugai- 

 munu's elephant. 



Beyond the Thuparama stands the Lanka-ramaya, a 

 dagoba of the third centiuy, which is still in tolerable 

 preservation ; and further to the north is the Jayta-wana- 

 rama^, erected by Maha Sen, a.d. 330. It still rises to 

 the height of two hundred and forty-nine feet, and is 

 clothed to tlie siniimit with trees of the largest size. 



THE JATTA-WANARAMA DAGOBA. 



The sohd mass of masonry in this vast mound is pro- 

 digious. Its diameter is three hundred and sixty feet, 

 and its present height (including the pedestal and spire) 

 two hundred and forty-nine feet ; so that the contents of 

 the semicircular dome of brickwork and the platform of 

 stone, seven hundred and twenty feet square and fifteen 

 feet high, exceed twenty millions of cubical feet. 



Even with the facilities ^vhich modern invention sup- 



' Called Jeta-tvanno, in the Mahawanso. 



