Beligammana Pothgul Viharaya Beligammana Raja Maha Viharaya (Sinhala: මාවනැල්ල බෙලිගම්මන විහාරය) (also known as Vidyawardhana Piriven Pothgul Viharaya ) is a Buddhist temple situated in Mawanella in Kegalle District, Sri Lanka. History T he history of this temple runs back to the early part of the 19th century. The preaching hall to where the devotees gather to listen to Dhamma is said to be one of the oldest buildings of this temple ( De Silva & Chandrasekara, 2009) It has been constructed about 200 years ago by two persons named Kiribandara Nilame and K.B. Senevirathna Nilame (De Silva & Chandrasekara, 2009). The two-storied library building known as Potgula is said to have been built in 1870 (Abeyawardana, 2002). A protected site The ancient Potgula (library) building situated in the premises of Beligammana Potgul Vihara in Beligammana village in the Divisional Secretariat Division of Mawanella is an archaeological protected monument, declared by a government gazette notification published on 7 December 2001. At…
