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dagaba from the early buildings I have described. Firstly, 
the stonework round about the dagaba all shows wedge marks, 
i.e., it was quarried stone, but that of all the little buildings 
was not quarried ; secondly, the three inscriptions are all 
remote from the dagaba and in the other group of rocks ; 
thirdly , the bricks in and around the dagaba, although chipped 
and broken, still retain their form, while those in the buildings 
on the rocks are so destroyed and washed that their debris is 
almost indistinguishable, and it was not possible from any 
fragment I observed even to tell that it had had straight sides 
or angles. 
For these reasons I am inclined to believe that the 
dagaba is of later date than the other buildings described, and 
I would prefer to place it with the few buildings on the 
rock below it on the eastern side. Here there are not only 
wedged stone pillars, in which the oval wedge marks correspond 
both in size and in their intervals with those in the wedged 
stones around the dagaba, but there are also abundance of 
brick fragments which still to some degree retain their form. 
Still further to connect these buildings with the dagaba, there 
is the fact of their position, grouped upon either side of the 
steps which lead to the dagaba and to nowhere else. 
Now, the first described buildings were in nearly every case 
placed just beside a rock cistern, sometimes one on either 
side of it. These other buildings, larger, less ruined, and 
containing quarried stone, are not near any such water hole, 
but are close to the tank. It appears therefore that the tank 
was by this time the source of water supply. So from a tiny 
settlement we can trace the monastery's growth until there 
were stone-pillared buildings, a dagaba,* and a tank. 
It is interesting to note that from the summit of the dagaba 
rock several of the great dagabas of Anuradhapura can be 
plainly seen on a clear morning , without the aid of a glass : 
Jetawanarama and Abhayagiri stand out distinctly. It is 
* At this ruined dagaba I found a brick bearing a design of two lotus 
flowers. Almost similar bricks were found at Aluthalmillewa, near 
Padawiya tank, by the Archaeological Survey in 18^1 at a dagaba, with 
an inscription of king Wasabha, who reigned in the later half of the first 
century a.d. See Annual Report, Archaeological Survey, 1891, p. 10. 
