Name: Okanda Murugan Kovil (ඔකද කතරගම දේවාලය)
Address: Panama-Kumbukkana Rd, Sri Lanka, LK

Okanda Murugan Kovil (ඔකද කතරගම දේවාලය) is a hindu temple, located at Panama-Kumbukkana Rd, Sri Lanka

Location :

Panama-Kumbukkana Rd

Added by Jopie, at 19 November 2016

Monday 6:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Tuesday 6:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Wednesday 6:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Thursday 6:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Friday 6:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Saturday 6:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Sunday 6:00 AM – 4:00 PM

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Anonymous

02 May 2021

Okanda is a sacred kovil worshipped by many devotees of different cultures and religions from all over the country. It is situated on Panama-Kumana road, just before the ticketing office of Kumana National Park. It is a temple devoted to the God of Katharagama. The beach and surrounding area can be viewed if you climb the small cliff inside the premises.
Anonymous

09 August 2020

Murugan temple nicely located on the hills near the rough beach. There is "Walli temple on another rock , we could see deers wandering that belong the temple.
Anonymous

02 October 2019

There are many beliefs. Valuable historical stories surrounded by the sacred kovil.
Anonymous

03 May 2019

Hindu God Murugan Temple located in Mountain and near the beautiful beach. amazing place for worship
Anonymous

20 April 2019

Nices beaches are heare. Hindu people comming to prey to their god Katharagama
Anonymous

24 January 2019

Very old temple
Very attractive place
Mountain 🗻, sea 🌊, forest around the temple
Anonymous

23 January 2019

I love this temple so much. Because we can get blessing from the God as well as we can spend time with happiness. Some foreigners surfing of beach side. Like that we table to see lots of animals and birds because The temple is among the jungle.. Therefore everyone like this place.
Anonymous

02 January 2019

Situated in kumana-panama off road 16km away from panama and closed to the kumana national park entrance. This place has lots of folks combined with legendary stories. Okada Devalaya is to belived to be the place god skanda ( God Katharagama ) first sailed in to srilanka by golden boat. Once gid skanda landed, this golden boat has turned in to a rock. Still we can observe that rock boat in okanda beach and known as " Oru Gala ". As people belive this is a very powerfull Kovil and lots of people used to visit this kovil. Better visit in day time as evening time elephants may cross the road.
Anonymous

05 November 2018

God Katharagama (Skanda Kumara) came from India with his servants in two huge canoes and landed at this beach. He went to Katharagama through Yala, met Valli Amma, taken her back to Okanda, got married and spent a fun filled stretch of a time (Honeymoon) before going back. Okanda means playful and happy, so the place became Okanda.

Paada Yatra starts from this Devalaya to honour the trip of God Katharagama through Yala.

The two canoes used by them turned into stone and presently known as Ran Oru Gala.
Anonymous

24 March 2018

A Hindu dewala.
One of the tourist attractions.
Anonymous

17 January 2018

The road to this Devalaya is terrible. It starts off with a carpet road, then cement and then just bare gravel as it goes deeper into the jungle/bush. But I'd say the trip is worth it because there is a lot of wildlife along the way.
Crocodiles
Herd of deer
Elephants (luckily we didn't come across any)
Peacocks
Monkeys
So many birds.. All in their natural habitats.

Just beside the Devalaya is a beautiful beach. Very clean. The water is so blue. People visit the rocks to the right end of the beach.
Anonymous

31 December 2017

Nice experience of offroad like journey to go there and it is a sacred place for God Katharagama
Anonymous

25 December 2017

A dewalaya which is devoted to God "Kataragama/Skandakumara"

Lot of people come here for religious activities.
Anonymous

29 November 2017

I went medical camp for Katharagama Perahara season 3 times
Anonymous

28 July 2017

Okanda Viharaya & Okanda Devalaya / ඔකඳ විහාරය හා දේවාලය

At the top of the rock is a small devalaya dedicated to Valli Amma, the concubine of Murugan ( Skanda). At the bottom of the rock lies a large devalaya dedicated to Murugan (deity Kataragama). A flight of rock cut steps from this devalaya leads to the top of the rock.

The caves at Kottadamuhela, near by, were a gift to the Sangha of the four quarters of the world, past, present and yet to come by the descendants of an independent dynasty of Kshatriya who reigned over southeast Ceylon with its seat in Kataragama. The emblem of the fish, found in the caves in this region, is the insignia of these rulers.

This entire region, as attested to by ancient cave inscriptions (out of which 20 has been identified at Kottadamuhela), has been used for similar purposes to those of this initiative since before the time of Christ.

According to the Historian Ven. Medhadana Thero, he has observed ruins of the stupa at the top of the rock during a visit in 1978 but today only some traces of it is found. Ancient bricks are scattered at the bottom of the rock.

Rock with archaeological evidences at Okanda Dewalaya premises (latitude 06º 65089' N and longitude 081º 72000' E)

පානම සිට කුමන දක්වා පිහිටි මාර්ගයේ කි. මී. 15ක් පමණ පැමිණ හමුවන දේවාල හන්දිය නම් මංසන්දියෙන් හැරී කි.මී. 1ක් පමණ මුහුද දෙසට ගියවිට මෙම ස්ථානයට ප්‍රවිෂ්ඨ විය හැක. මුහුදු වෙරළට යාර 100ක් පමණ මෙපිටින් ගල්කුළු සහිත පෙදෙසක් මෙයට අයත් වෙයි. ප්‍රධාන පර්වතයට නැගීමට පියගැටපෙලක් වෙයි.

මෙහි පැරණි ආරාමයක හා ස්ථූපයක නටඹුන් 1978 වර්ෂය දක්වාම පැවතිමුත් දැන් ඒවා දක්නට නැත. නමුත් පර්වතය පාමුල ගඩොල් කැටපමනක් ඉතිරිව ඇත.

මෙම ස්ථානය පිහිටි විහාර බිමේ මුලින්ම කතරගම දේවාලයක් අරඹා ඇත්තේ වසර 1800 දී පමණ පානම්පත්තුවේ රටේ මහත්තයා ලෙස කටයුතු කළ සියාතු නම් අයෙකි. වර්ෂ 1970 පමණ වනතෙක් මෙහි සියලු යාතිකා කටයුතු සිංහල මිශ්‍ර දෙමළ බසින් සිදු කෙරුණු අතර ත්‍රස්ථවාදී යුදසමයේ පානම සිංහල ප්‍රජාව මෙම ස්ථානය අතහැර දැමීම නිසා මේ වනවිට මෙම පුදබිම කෝවිලක් බවට පත්වී ඇත.

මේ ස්ථානය පිළිඹඳ මේ වනවිට විවිධ හින්දු ආගමික කථාපුවත් ගොඩනැගෙමින් පවතී

- උපුටාගැනීම් - උතුරු නැගෙනහිර සිංහල බෞද්ධ උරුමය - පූජ්‍ය එල්ලාවල මේධානන්ධ හිමි.
Anonymous

20 July 2017

Really awesome devotional Place Hindus & Buddhist
Anonymous

19 June 2017

A very famous kovil in this area.It's a kovil complex.
Anonymous

20 March 2017

Historical Hindu temple . Pilgrimage starting them journey from here. Festival of Ukanthai is simultaneously occurring with Katirkamam festival falling on mid July - August Full moon day. "Teerta Utsavam"
Anonymous

26 November 2016

Well worth the trip. Located at the end of the road from Arugam Bay. Just before the park entrance. Climb to the top. Enjoy the ocean and National Park views. All for Free.