Habessa Archaeological Site Habessa Archaeological Site (Sinhala: හබැස්ස පුරාවිද්යා ස්ථානය) is a site with a ruined Buddhist monastery located on the right bank (south bank) of the Kumbukkan Oya , 6 km south-southeast of Okkampitiya village in Monaragala District, Sri Lanka. History The ruined monastery at the site is named Ulibikala-Naka-Maha Viharaya in a rock inscription in situ of the Uvaraja Naka, son of Utara Maharaja and grandson of Vahaba Maharaja [( King Vasabha : 67-111 A.D.) Nicholas, 1963]. Habessa rock inscription This rock inscription is found engraved on one of the three caves at the southern extremity of the rock that contains a colossal recumbent Buddha image of brick and stucco. Comprising five lines of writing, the script and language of the inscription are Sinhala of the second century A.D. (Paranavitana, 1983). The purport of the record was to register the grant of an irrigation channel named Ulibikala and three tanks Mataviya, Abaviya and Gavidaviya to the great monastery of Ulibikala-Naka by the…