Vallipuram Alvar Vishnu Kovil Vallipuram Alvar Visnu Kovil (Sinhala: වල්ලිපුරම් කෝවිල; Tamil: மவல்லிபுரம் கோயில்) is a Hindu shrine situated in Vallipuram village in Jaffna District, Sri Lanka. History Remains of an ancient Buddhist site The famous gold sheet known as Vallipuram Ran Sannasa was discovered in 1936 beneath the foundation of an ancient structure on a land adjacent to the
present Vallipuram Vishnu temple (Dias et al., 2016; Medhananda, 2003;
Paranavitana, 1983). It records the construction of a Buddhist Viharaya at a place called Badakara
Atana by a person named Piyaguka Tissa, when the minister Isigiraya was
the Governor of Nagadipa, during the reign of King Vasabha [(67-111 A.D.) Dias et al., 2016; Medhananda, 2003; Paranavitana, 1983]. The plate is presently preserved in the Anuradhapura Gallery of Colombo National Museum . Besides the gold sheet, other ruins such as some funerary urns, bricks,
pottery, coins and a Buddha statue of stone in the Amaravati style were
discovered at the site (Veluppil…
