. Ceylon : an account of the island, physical, historical, and topographical with notices of its natural history, antiquities and productions. Natural history -- Sri Lanka; Sri Lanka. Chap. 1.] THE ROUND HOUSE AT TOPARE. 58J " this engraved stone is the one which the strong men of the King Nissanga brouglit from the mountain of IVIihintaLa at Anarajapoora," a distance of more than eighty miles.^ The edges of the slab are richly carved with ornamental borders representing rows of the hanza, the sacred goose of the Buddhists. A fiuther circumstance which seems to fix the posi- tion of
. Ceylon : an account of the island, physical, historical, and topographical with notices of its natural history, antiquities and productions. Natural history -- Sri Lanka; Sri Lanka. Chap. 1.] THE ROUND HOUSE AT TOPARE. 58J " this engraved stone is the one which the strong men of the King Nissanga brouglit from the mountain of IVIihintaLa at Anarajapoora," a distance of more than eighty miles.^ The edges of the slab are richly carved with ornamental borders representing rows of the hanza, the sacred goose of the Buddhists. A fiuther circumstance which seems to fix the posi- tion of the palace of Prakrama at this spot is, that in connection with it the king is said, in the Mahawanso, to have built many "outer halls made of stone of an oval form, with large and small gates, ghttering walls and staircases," ^ and close by the Sat-mahal-prasada there is a biulding which corresponds with this de- THE ROUND HOUSE AT TOPARh This curious edifice, which stands on a terrace and appears to have been hypa^thral, is approached on four sides by staircases and gates. The walls are about ' A translation of the entire of this I given in the Appendix to Tikxoi'k's remarkable inscription, which was en- Epitome, p. 94. sraved about the year 1106 , is ' * 3Iahmranso, ch. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Tennent, James Emerson, Sir, 1804-1869. London : Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts
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