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| The Lankarama Chaithya. |
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| A boundary wall of bricks. |
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| Underground water outlet into a pool. |
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| The Elephant Pond ('Aeth pokuna' S) |
'Eth pokuna (Elephant pond) is an
ancient man made pond situated close to Lankaramaya. It is 159 meters in length
52.7 meters across and 9.5 meters in depth with the holding capacity of 75,000
cubic meters of water.
The water
to this pond has been supplied from the Periyamkulama Tank through a network of
underground canals. These underground canals still work after so many hundreds
years. This tank probably has been used by the monks in the Abhayagiri
Buddhist Monastery who
amounted over five thousand priests'.
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