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At Kachchilamadu there are the ruins of a temple under 

 the tank bund — pillars, cut stones of various shapes, stone 

 steps, bricks, and a headless statue of Buddha. 



Another Buddhist establishment existed in the same 

 neighbourhood at Taddayamalai, four or five miles west of 

 Kachchilamadu : — 



In former times there was a monastery near the western end of the 

 Taddayamalai bund. Although many of the best stones and bricks 

 have been removed to the Odduchuddan Hindu temple within the 

 last twelve or thirteen years, enough remains to indicate the 

 importance of the place. The special feature at it is an interesting 

 piece of dry walling of the Cyclopean style that protected one corner 

 of the brick-walled enclosure of the monastery from the scour caused 

 by the stream that flows through the breach, f 



The ruins consist of four balustrades, a stone slab 12 ft. 

 by 6 ft. and 2 ft. and 2^ ft. thick with carved ends, which is 

 said to have been the roof of the temple ; a stone " boat " 

 30 ft. long and 5 ft. deep. Two of the balustrades have a 

 boss carved on them. There are many large boulders lying 

 about, one or more of them masonry built, forming large 

 elevated platforms.^ 



This monastery is supposed to be older than that at 

 Kurunturmalai. 



There are stone pillars, bricks, and other remains of ancient 

 buildings at Chivantaimurippu in the jungle west of the 

 Kokkilay lake, between Kokkutodavay and Taddayamalai. 



An interesting and very elaborate sripdda stone which 

 belonged to this place, but which was removed to Koddaik- 

 keni, will be found described in the Proceedings of the 

 Royal Asiatic Society (Ceylon Branch) for 1890. It is now 

 in the Colombo Museum. 



At Otiyamalai, in the south-eastern corner of Melpattu 

 North, there is a rock on the bund of the tank with the 

 remains of another monastery on it, a recumbent image 

 of Buddha of crystallized limestone or quartz, under an 



* This was done in 1882. f Sessional Papers, 1886, page 454. 



% See diary of Mr. Moir, 1862. 



