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Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte
Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte is a city in Sri Lanka.
The village of Darugama lay at the confluence of two streams, the Diyawanna Oya and the Kolonnawa Oya. As Darugama was a naturally secure place, it was not easy for enemies to enter it. Here, in the 13th century, a chieftain named Nissanka Alagakkonara built a Kotte, or fortress.
- the King's palace, with walls of quartz that sparkle in the moonlight (candrakanta pasana) and a golden spire, with beautiful flower gardens and springs of water,[6]
- the three-storeyed Dalada Maligawa with Buddha's sacred tooth relic in it (Temple of the tooth),
- the five-storeyed "Arama" where sixty Buddhist Bhikkus resided, with a Sangha Raja(a high priest)as the chief incumbent,
- the King's Treasure House,
- the 'Kotavehara' at Baddagana, the only Buddhist temple of the city outside the moat and rampart,
- the Royal cemetery at Beddagana (Veherakanda memorial),
- and the 'Angampitiya', the military parade and training ground just inside the inner moat.
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