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A Mound the Size of a Hill

Yudaganawa — 2 km northwest of Buttala

The grass-covered Yudaganawa stupa mound with the small image house at its baseMOUND AND IMAGE HOUSEPhoto by Anjale8891 on Wikimedia Commons
2 km northwest of ButtalaPhoto — Anjale8891

The lower brick terraces are restored, but most of the dome is still a grass-covered hill you can walk all the way around.

An ancient stupa 2 km northwest of Buttala with a base circumference of about 317 meters — one of the largest stupa footprints in Sri Lanka. Tradition links it to the reconciliation of the brother-kings Dutugemunu and Saddhatissa in the 2nd century BCE.

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6.7716° N, 81.2333° ECarto · OSM

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