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platform paved with slabs of rock, some of which measured 
10 ft. 10 in. by 3 ft. 3 in. thick — some of them in situ. The 
platform is about 20 ft. square. 
I then went to the sitting Buddha, which is excavated out of 
the solid rock near the top of the highest rock in the place. The 
sitting portion of the figure is obscured by bricks and stones. I 
took a sketch from the steps leading to the .dagaba on the top of 
the rock. 
What the height of this rock is I do not know, but I should 
judge it to be from 150 to 200 ft. to the top from the level out 
of which it rises. 
The dagaba is a small one, and the b6-tree seems to be growing 
in it. 
The full length figure is exactly 40 ft. long, and I regret to say 
that the right arm is broken off. The nose, of which the nostrils 
are fully carved, came off some years ago. — Diary, August 23, 
1886. 
W. J. S. BOAKE, 
Assistant Government Agent, 
Mannar. 
IV. 
I went to Kappachi in the morning, and, after inspecting the 
village and tank, on to Tantri-malai in the Anuradhapura District. 
Here there are Some very interesting ruins ; two Buddhas carved 
in high relief out of the solid rock, and a curious little stone house 
on the top of a rock very similar, though on a smaller scale, to 
one at Dondra in the Southern Province.* — Diary, September 23, 
1886. 
G. M. Fowler, 
Assistant Government Agent, 
Vavuniya. 
V. 
Went to inspect tlie ruins at Tantri-malai. They consist of a 
group of rocks covering a space of about 60 acres as far as I can 
see. Fine grassy glades separate some of the larger rocks. The 
place must have been the abode of Buddhist priests, for ruins of 
pansalas are to be found. 
There is a most picturesque little square block-house on the top 
of a conical rock about 30 ft. high. The little house is built of cut 
stones laid one on top of the other, one stone running the whole 
* The Dondra ruin, built on high ground, differs. It was once the 
penetrale, or inner shrine, of a Hindu Devale. — B^, Ed. Sec. 
