On the 5th of April 1819 we continued our excursion into Lower Ouva, and proceeded to Katragam by way of Boutle (Buttala) and Talawa, a distance of forty miles, which we accomplished in three days.
Kataragama: Its Temples, Festival, and Pilgrimages
Kataragama is a remarkable place of worship and pilgrimage in Ceylon. This renowned temple, unlike those of India, which are distinguished forKataragama is a remarkable place of worship and
John Scott, Assistant Government Agent, Hambantota, who supervised the festival, thought that the whole permit system was a farce. "I would," he writes in his observations)
The story of Kataragama is perhaps worth repeating as I had not seen it detailed in any of the diaries I have read. As told to me though there are probably different versions
There is on the South-east coast of Ceylon a lonely hamlet known as Kataragama in the heart of a forest haunted by bears, elephants and leopards and more deadly malaria.
Girded on all sides by the belt of the Indian Ocean and the Bay of Bengal, enriched by the fertile soil of the plains and the hills, watered by several rivers, endowed with numerous fauna and flora, natural scenic
The gods of the Hindu Pantheon are an integral part of the religious life of Ceylon. Psychologically, the distinction is clear in the minds of the Buddhist Sinhalese between the precepts and doctrines of