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Adam's Peak is a 2,243 m (7,359 ft) tall conical sacred mountain located in central Sri Lanka. [1] [2] It is well known for the Sri Pada (Śrī Pāda ; Sinhala: ශ්රී පාද, 'sacred footprint'), a 1.8 m (5 ft 11 in) rock formation near the summit whose name is also used for the mountain itself.
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The Walawe (Sinhala: වලවේ ගඟ, Tamil: வளவை ஆறு) is a 138 km (86 mi) [1] long river in Sri Lanka which originates on Adam's Peak. It discharges into the Indian Ocean at the coastal town of Ambalantota. Belihul Oya, a major tributary to the Walawe River, near its source in Horton Plains.
Padadaya (The Outcast) (Sinhala: පාදඩයා) is a 1999 Sri Lankan Sinhala drama film directed and produced by Linton Semage for Hiru Films. It stars Linton Semage and Shyamali Warusavitana in lead roles along with Saumya Liyanage and Trilicia Gunawardena. Music composed by Rohana Weerasinghe.
Siri Daladagamanaya (Sinhala: සිරි දළදාගමනය) is a 2014 Sri Lankan Sinhalese epic historical film directed by Sanath Abeysekara and produced by Soma Edirisinghe for EAP Films. Starring Prasadi Samarakone and Heshan Manula , the film is also played by Jeevan Kumaratunga , Geetha Kumarasinghe , Dilhani Ekanayake , Sriyantha ...
Keira Knightley’s number one reason for having no more kids isn’t the pain of childbirth or the endless nights of disrupted sleep.. On Monday, Dec. 9. the actress, 39, gushed about her two ...
In 1975, the Buddhist monk Sumedhamkara claimed a Hindu temple had been built near the site and complained of damage done to the Buddhist ruins. [7] Further in the late 90s and early 2000s the separatist militant Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) used the area as a communication center and demolished a stony rock with six epigraphs to fix a LTTE radio transmission tower, the LTTE also ...
A vaṭadāge (Sinhala: වටදාගෙ) is a type of Buddhist structure found in Sri Lanka. It also known as a dage , thupagara and a cetiyagara . Although it may have had some Indian influence, it is a structure that is more or less unique to the architecture of ancient Sri Lanka .