Historical · Ampara · Eastern
Six Hundred Ruins on a Forest Hill
Rajagala Archaeological Site — 24 km north of Ampara via Uhana
PILLARS IN THE FORESTPhoto by L Manju on Wikimedia CommonsA site on the scale of Mihintale with almost no visitors, including a half-carved Buddha about 16 feet long left in the rock.
A forested hill north of Ampara whose slopes hold more than 600 ruins and nearly 100 stupas across some 1,600 acres, with monks resident before the 1st century BCE. A Brahmi inscription names the elders Ittiya and Mahinda, one of only two rock inscriptions anywhere that mention Mahinda; the other is at Mihintale.
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7.4780° N, 81.6329° EOSM
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