leo ANAI^AJAi'UKE. 



■of masonry in different parts of* the platform indicate 

 that a well oi'iginally existed between the third row of 

 columns and the outer one, with a stone door at each 

 ■entrance. Likewise altars for the depositing of 

 ■offerings of flowers or valuables, dedicated to the use 

 of the priesthood, had existed at the base of the shrine, 

 which, occupying the centre, held the jewelled casket 

 ■containinof the left collar-bone of Buddha. 



There are a great many other remains at Anaraja- 

 pore, as, for instance, the Kuamveli and the Lankrama 

 dagoba, although smaller, built after the model of the 

 Thuparame. They are scattered in the depth of the 

 forest, and most of them completely ruined, but the 

 a,bove description of the most ancient of these temples 

 will give an idea of the style we may expect to find 

 amongst the excavations still going on. They are said 

 to have recently brought to light a great number of 

 granite columns, or parts thereof, forming a square of 

 forty to each face, thus giving a total of one hundred 

 and sixty when complete; these are supposed to have 

 formed the lower structure of some wonderful palace. 



Before leaving Anarajapore I must name a curiosity 

 of the place, what is supposed to be the original Bo-tree 

 or Peepul [Ficiis religiosa), the oldest tree in the world, 

 said to have been planted in B.C. 288, and tended ever 



