April 2021

Kahaththewela Ambalama

Photo credit: Google street view The Kahaththewela Ambalama (Sinhala: කහත්තෙවෙල අම්බලම) is an old wayside rest situated in Bandarawela in Badul…

Poramadulla Ambalama

Photo credit: Google Street View The Poramadulla Ambalama (Sinhala: පොරමඩුල්ල අම්බලම) is an old wayside rest situated near Poramadulla Central…

Wegiriya Ambalama

Photo credit: Google street view The Wegiriya Ambalama (Sinhala: වේගිරිය අම්බලම) is an old wayside rest situated in Udunuwara in Kandy Distric…

Hanguranketha Ambalama

Photo credit: Google Street View The Hanguranketha Ambalama (Sinhala: හඟුරන්කෙත අම්බලම) is an old wayside rest situated near Hanguranketha Poth…

Konakalagala Ambalama

Konakalagala Ambalama K onakalagala Ambalama (Sinhala: කොනකලගල අම්බලම) is an old wayside rest situated in Konakalagala village …

Madanwala Ambalama

Photo credit: Google street view The Madanwala Ambalama (Sinhala: මාදංවල අම්බලම) is an old wayside rest situated in the Madanwala village near …

Rikillagaskada Ambalama

Photo credit: Google street view The Rikillagaskada Ambalama (Sinhala: රිකිල්ලගස්කඩ අම්බලම) is an old wayside rest situated in the middle of Ri…

Rukula Ambalama

The Rukula Ambalama (Sinhala: රුකුලා අම්බලම) is an old wayside rest situated in Rukulagama village in Kegalle District, Sri Lanka. The famous Aluth…

Namal Oya Wewa

Namal Oya Wewa   (Sinhala: නාමල් ඔය වැව) is a reservoir situated about 10 km north of Senanayaka Samudraya in Ampara District, Sri Lanka.  Histo…

Chandrika Wewa (Embilipitiya)

Chandrika Wewa C handrika Wewa (Sinhala: චන්ද්‍රිකා වැව) is a reservoir situated near Embilipitiya town in Ratnapura District, S…

Kuragala Ancient Buddhist Monastery

Kuragala (Sinhala: කූරගල පුරාණ බෞද්ධ ආරාම සංකීර්ණය) is an archaeological site consisting of the ruins of an ancient Buddhist cave temple. It is sit…

Sanskrit Inscriptions in Sri Lanka

A small number (20 or more) of Sanskrit inscriptions (Sinhala: ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ සංස්කෘත සෙල්ලිපි) have been found in Sri Lanka (Dhammaratana, 2000). Ho…

Gin Ganga River

Gin Ganga (Sinhala: ගිං ගඟ; Tamil: கிங்கங்கை) is considered one of the important rivers in southern Sri Lanka. The chronicle Mahavamsa mentions thi…

Nicholson’s Cove Arabic Inscription, Trincomalee

Trincomalee Nicholson’s Cove Arabic Inscription   (Sinhala: ත්‍රිකුණාමලය නිකල්සන් කෝව් අරාබි සොහොන්ගල් සෙල්ලිපිය) is one of the Arabic Inscription…

Anuradhapura-Puttalam road Arabic Inscription

Anuradhapura-Puttalam road Arabic inscription Elupitiya(Sinhala: අනුරාධපුර-පුත්තලම මාර්ගයෙන් හමුවූ අරාබි සෙල්ලිපිය) is one of the Arabic Inscriptio…

Ellupitty Arabic Inscription

Ellupitty Arabic Inscription Elupitiya(Sinhala: එළුපිටිය අරාබි සොහොන්ගල් සෙල්ලිපිය) is one of the Arabic Inscriptions in Sri Lanka . This has bee…

Trincomalee Dockyard Arabic Inscription

Trincomalee Dockyard Arabic Inscription (Sinhala: ත්‍රිකුණාමලය අරාබි සොහොන්ගල් සෙල්ලිපිය) is one of the Arabic Inscriptions in Sri Lanka . It is …

Puliyantivu Arabic Inscription

Puliyantivu Arabic Inscription (Sinhala: පුලියන්තිවු අරාබි සොහොන්ගල් සෙල්ලිපිය) is one of the Arabic Inscriptions in Sri Lanka . It is presently …

Mantai Arabic Inscription

Mantai Arabic Inscription (Sinhala: මාතොට අරාබි සොහොන්ගල් සෙල්ලිපිය) is one of the Arabic Inscriptions in Sri Lanka . It is presently on the dis…