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15 June 2019
Very old temple. Easily accessible when going to gampol through the peradeniya university ( Doluwa ) from Kandy botanical gardens
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11 June 2019
Historical place..wonderful location to visit
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02 May 2019
Sacred ancient beautiful of nature
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19 April 2019
Hindagala Temple is situated on the road from Peradeniya to Deltota. Few kilometers from the Galaha junction and drive through the Peradeniya campus. The entrance is at the left hand side of the road when you driving from Kandy or Peradeniya. There is two access to the temple. One is a stone steps from the main road. you can see a sign board with directions to Hindagala temple there. Other one is a road up to the hill located some meters away from the stairs. If you are visiting with your own vehicle, you can drive up to the hill some far along that road. You can also arrive there by bus very easily from Kandy or Galaha junction. Ask someone there to get the correct bus. As I remember it doesn't far more than 6-7 kilometers from Colombo-Kandy highway road.
Hindagala temple is very important place in Sri Lankan history since the Hindagala temple is related to many of ancient legends and amazing wall paintings. The architecture of the Hindagala Temple is also wonderful. The vihara geya is totally built under a natural large rock. You can see many of ancient architectural technologies such as "Kataram" and wooden joints.
The oldest paintings of Hindagala can be seen in the cave facing eastern side of the rock. Most of the paintings have been faded and decayed. There are two paintings depicting “Thapassu and Balluka” brothers offering alms to the Lord Buddha and another painting shows that the “Sakkra Deva” paying homage to the Buddha in Indrasala cave.
The style of these paintings is treated as similar to the period of Sigiriya. In these paintings outlines have been made in brown colour and other parts have beenresponse / report this review -
18 February 2019
Very sacred place.historical temple with ancient crafts and arts.known to be the sacred tooth was hidden here while sri lanka was attached by others.must visit.
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30 April 2018
There are beautiful paintings. Main part of the temple consist with a rock. Nowadays it has been modified. Around you can see Ambuluwawa From the temple.
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05 March 2018
historical place calm and beautiful
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14 December 2017
Hindagala is one of the affiliate temple comes under Malwathu Vihara Chapter. It’s believed that this temple was built in 6th century.
The main temple located in a cave and consists of a outer roof also. At the time of our visit, cave temple was closed, so we were only able to see the outer wall paintings and the surrounding area.response / report this review -
26 October 2017
Nice quite & calm religious place
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13 September 2017
This is the most important and historical Buddhist temple which was included historical painting belongs to the 4th century BC
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08 February 2017
Close from kandy city. Historical place. If u are visit this place u can see the great cave paintings..
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14 January 2017
Historical Temple very close to Peradeniya. Must visit. There are painting that is from the kandyan era.
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24 December 2016
Temple (historical place)
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17 December 2016
හිඳගල රජ මහා විහාරය most sacred temple in this aria
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22 September 2016
Great cave paintings kandyan era
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