"BAMBAWA" historical temple

 Bambawa raja maha viharaya


 The legends of the Bambawa Purana Raja maha Viharaya goes back to to time of King Wattagamini Abhaya better known as king Walagamba. The king came to power in 104 BC but invaders from South India captured the capital within the same year. Then for 15 years the king lived in hiding in jungle caves amassing and training a force to attack the invaders. The cave at Bambawa was one of such caves which was used by the king during his exile.

When he was living in the cave in Bamba, a native “Vedda” hunter called Sitha had come to the king and informed him that there was another cave nearby much larger and suitable for a king. The king visited this cave and seeing it a much larger cave with better protection, had moved to this new cave, and the vedda had been generously rewarded. Finally in 89 BC he fought the Tamil invaders and recaptured the capital and took back the throne of the country. Thereafter the king turned every cave which sheltered him in to cave temples and donated them to Sanga. Today thousands of cave temples all over the country are attributed this king. The cave at Bamba is known as the Bambawa Rajamaha Viharaya and the new larger cave he moved to is today the Dambulla Rajamaha Viharaya.


That is the reason I stop filming entrance of the statues. It is ethic of video grapheres, do not take picture why they harmful to all paints.

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