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  • 5/5 Thivantha H. 4 years ago on Google
    (Translated by Google) In the 8th year of the Enlightenment, the Buddha was invited by King Mani Akhitha Naa. Prior to the eulogy prepared by Mani Akhitha Naraju, about 500 Buddhist monks came to the Kelani river and bathed in water. The Buddha's footprint was placed on the bottom of the Kelani River for the pilgrimage to Na World. The water monk (bathing) which was worn by the Buddha was presented to King Mani Akhitha Na and the king deposited it with the sacred relics of the Buddha at the spot where the Buddha wore robes. Later, King Kithsira Mewan, the king of Lakdiva, had enlarged the stupa and recruited a beautiful temple complex. It is also called the 'robe dagaba' because the water crystal of the Buddha was buried and buried. It is also the only stupa in the world built with a water crystal. "No sins committed since your birth." - This text is correctly interpreted here, not in the Kelani Raja Maha Vihara, because the Buddha bathed in this place. (Original) බුද්ධත්වයෙන් 8 වන වසදී බුදුන්වහන්සේ මණි අක්ඛිත නා රජුගේ ඇරයුමෙන් මෙහි වැඩි අතර, එය 3වන ලංකාගමනයද වේ. මණි අක්ඛිත නාරජු පිළියෙල කල දන් වැළදීමට ප්‍රථම බුදුහිමි ප්‍රමුඛ 500ක් මහරහතන් වහන්සේලා කැළණි ගංතොටට වැඩම කර ජල ස්නානය කර ඇත. නා ලොව වන්දනාවට කැළණී ගං පතුලේ බුද්ධ පා ලාංඡනයක්ද තබන ලදි. බුදු හිමි හැඳ සිටි ජල ඝටීකාව( නානකඩය) මණි අක්ඛිත නා රජුට ප්‍රදානය කල අතර නා රජු එම ජල ඝටීකා ධාතුව බුදුන්වහන්සේ සිවුරු හැඳ පොරවා ගත් ස්ථානයේ තැන්පත් කර දාගැබක් කරවීය. පසු කලෙක ලක්දිව රජ පැමිණි කිත්සිර මෙවන් රජතුමා විසින් මේ ස්ථූපය විශාල කොට, යළිත් බඳවා මනරම් විහාර සංකීර්ණයක්ද කරවා ඇත. බුදුරජුන්ගේ ජල ඝටිකාව තැන්පත් කර බැඳවූ නිසා “ සිවුරු දාගැබ“ ලෙසද හැඳින්වේ. ජල ඪටිකා ධාතුවක් තැන්පත කර තනවන ලද ලොව එකම ස්ථූපයද මෙයයි. “ උපන් දා සිට කරපු පව් නැත වරක් වැන්දොත් කැළණියේ “ - මෙම පාඨය නිවරදිවම අර්ථ ගැන්වෙන්නේ කැළණි රජමහ විහාරයට නොව මෙතනටය, එයට හේතුව බුදුන්වහන්සේ ස්නානය කලේ මේ ස්ථානයේ නිසාය.
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  • 4/5 Maliya N. 1 year ago on Google • 317 reviews
    You can visit by walking or by using Palam Paruwa to this temple from the Kelaniya Raja Maha Viharaya.
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  • 5/5 tharaka p. 2 years ago on Google • 147 reviews
    Ancient temple built in 14 th century Situated close to Kelani Raja Maha viharaya those two separated by the Kelani river Very popular place among locals these days
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  • 5/5 Ashan A. 3 years ago on Google
    Beautiful place
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  • 5/5 Dul S. 1 year ago on Google • 50 reviews
    Ancient Buddhist temple, Situvated in a Peaceful and carm environment that you can warship to the fullest. The sthupa was built by King Kithsiri Mevan. This viharaya with Sacred Satupa is the only one of its kind in the whole world . The stupa contains Load Buddha's 'Paribogika Sivura' that his loadship has used when visited Kalaniya. The inner peace and the harmony you feel within after warshiping is beyond explanation. Sadhu..Sadhu..Sadhu !!!
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  • 5/5 Hansani E. 10 months ago on Google • 153 reviews
    It’s located on the south side of the Kelaniya Raja Maha Vihara temple, across the Kelani river. Thus, pilgrims often call this temple as Egoda Kelaniya. In ancient times, a ferry was used to cross the river but now a bridge has been built joining these two historical temples. It’s recorded in the history that king Kithsiri Mewan had built this temple in 301-328 B.C; across the Kelani river in a very beautiful environment. On Lord Buddha’s visit to Kelaniya he had a bath from Kelani river and made it a holy place for Buddhists in Sri Lanka. The robe (water particle) he was wearing at that time has been embedded inside the pagoda of this temple according to an inscription which belongs to 18th century. The vihara consists of a historical Buddha mandira, සිවුරු දාගැබ (the Robe Vehera) and a Bo tree. Moreover there’s a figurine of the most sacred Sri Pada near the pagoda. Even though the pagoda was destroyed by the Portuguese, Ven. Sri Rahula Thero could find it without any harm when he visited the temple. Being delighted by the scene of this pagoda, the Thero Rahula mentioned about the Kithsiri Mewan Viharaya in his well known Salelihini Sandeshaya poem book too. The current Nayaka Thero of both the temples, Kelaniya Raja Maha Viharaya and Kithsiri Mewan Viharaya recently planted a branch of the sacred Sri Maha Bodhi in Kithsiri Mewan Viharaya. There’s a golden fence surrounding it as well.

  • 5/5 Rs m. 1 year ago on Google • 153 reviews
    This temple is a historical sacred place. Many people call it Egoda Kelaniya, and its real name is Egoda Kelaniya Kitsirimevan Viharaya. It is said that it belongs to the period 301 - 328 AD. Even now this temple is accessible by ferry and bridge (via the main road). A place where tourists and devotees can visit and worship freely.

  • 5/5 Damithu M. 1 year ago on Google • 8 reviews
    It’s located on the south side of the temple, across the Kelani river. Thus, pilgrims often call this temple as Egoda Kelaniya. In ancient times, a ferry was used to cross the river but now a bridge has been built joining these two historical temples. It’s recorded in the history that king Kithsiri Mewan had built this temple in 301-328 B.C; across the Kelani river in a very beautiful environment.
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  • 3/5 Sumith Chathuranga l. 4 years ago on Google
    (Translated by Google) Egoda Kalaniya. (Original) Egoda Kalaniya.
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  • 5/5 Sampath W. 4 years ago on Google • 78 reviews
    Most valuable and historical Buddhist worship 🛐 place.

  • 5/5 Prasad L. 4 years ago on Google
    On this occasion, it is said that Buddha stamped his sacred footprint on the river bed for the veneration of the Naga kings, and the ‘Nanakadaya’ robe he clad during his bath has been offered to King Maniakkitha. It is said that the Naga king had built the sprawling dagoba that enshrined a relic of the bathing robe (jalasaatikawa) where the Buddha had changed his bathing robes. Today, the dagoba is known as ‘Sivrudagoba’ which stands majestically in the premises of Kithsirimevan Kelani Raja Maha Viharaya. The Sivru dagoba, said to have been originally built by the Naga King Maniakkitha had been renovated under royal patronage from time to time. Later, King Kirthi Sri Megawarna or Kithsirimevan (847-875 BC) had widened and renovated this dagoba. It is after him that the temple is named Kithsirimevan Kelani Raja Maha Viharaya. The bathing robe of the Buddha (jalasaatikawa) is enshrined in the dagoba. It is believed, this is the one and only dagoba in the whole world which had been built enshrining a bathing robe (jalasaatikawa) of the Buddha, which is proved by two ancient stone inscriptions in the temple premises. Copied from internet
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  • 5/5 Roshan P. 3 years ago on Google
    As we believe Loard Buddha had preached dhamma in this place. Also Loard Buddhist has kept footprint for the people of "Naga" to worship. You have to worship this place as a Buddhist to get the actually feeling of this place. Calm and very quiet place even though it is closed to main road. Limited amount of parking also available. Better if you can go there evening or night time.
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  • 4/5 Visitha G. 4 years ago on Google
    (Translated by Google) On a Vesak Poya day, Kelania describes Mahavamsa and Deepavamsa with his followers. It is common knowledge among Buddhists that King Kelaniya Raja Maha Viharaya with the throne is said to have been built by King Buddha as he preached the Dhamma to the King and his followers. The history of the sacred places of worship for Buddhists BC. Runs before 500. It is the sacred site that the Buddha visited when he visited the Third Island and had previously visited Mahiyanganaya and Nagadeepa. This renowned legend, the Kelani Raja Maha Viharaya, is tied to the notorious story of the former Kithsirimevan Raja Maha Viharaya or the Megoda Temple. Bo and Na leaves are the only skins covered in the evening in the Kithsirimevan Raja Maha Vihara on a weekly basis. Come and go to the temple. The Viharadhipathi, Venerable Unana Upananda Thera says that it takes about two hours for the devotees to pay homage to the sacred footprint of the sacred compound (the sacred footprint of the Buddha). Upananda Thera reflects, "The public access to the temple was easy only after the construction of the bridge along the old Kandy Road, especially with the Kellani River overflowing several times a year." The main temple can be recalled through a foot path. When he first arrived ten years ago. "Villagers called Vulcan bushes around. (Original) වෙසක් පෝයා දිනයක කෙලනියා සිය අනුගාමිකයන් සමඟ මහවංශය සහ දීපවංශ විස්තර කරයි. රජතුමාට සහ ඔහුගේ අනුගාමිකයන්ට ධර්මය දේශනා කරමින් සිටියදී බුදුරජාණන් වහන්සේ අසුන්ගෙන සිටින බව කියනු ලබන සිංහාසනය සහිත කෙලනියා රාජා මහා විහාරය රජතුමා විසින් ඉදිකරන ලද බව ලංකා බෞද්ධයින්ට පොදු දැනීමකි. බෞද්ධයන් සඳහා මෙම පූජනීය පූජනීය ස්ථානයෙහි ඉතිහාසය ක්‍රි.පූ. 500 ට පෙර දිව යයි. බුදුන් වහන්සේ තුන්වන දූපතට ගිය අවස්ථාවේ දී ඔහු විසින් සංචාරය කරන ලද පූජනීය භූමිය වන අතර, මීට පෙර මහියන්ගනායා සහ නාගදීප යන ස්ථානවල සංචාරය කර ඇත. මෙම කීර්තිමත් පුරාවෘත්තය වන කෙලනි රාජා මහා විහාරය තුළ බැඳී ඇත්තේ කලින් සිටි කිත්සිරිමෙවන් රාජා මහා විහාරය හෝ මෙගෝඩා පන්සලාගේ එතරම් ප්‍රසිද්ධ නැති කතන්දරයයි. සතියේ දිනවල කිත්සිරිමෙවන් රාජා මහ විහාරයේ දී බැතිමතුන් කිහිප දෙනෙකු ආවරණය කරන එකම හම් වන්නේ බෝ සහ නා කොළ සවස් වරුවේ හමා යාමයි. එන්න පොයා, බැතිමතුන් විහාරය වෙත පැමිණේ. කෙතරම්ද යත්, පූජනීය සංයෝගයේ සලකුණු කර ඇති සිරිපාතුල (බුදුරජාණන් වහන්සේගේ පූජනීය අඩිපාර) වෙත බැතිමතුන් වැඳපුදා ගැනීමට පැය දෙකකට ආසන්න කාලයක් ගත වන බව විහාරාධිකාරි, පූජ්‍ය උනානා උපනන්ද තෙර පවසයි. “පැරණි මහනුවර පාර දිගේ පාලම ඉදිකිරීමෙන් පසුව පමණක්, විශේෂයෙන් වසරකට කිහිප වතාවක් කෙලනි ගඟ පිරී ඉතිරී යාමත් සමඟ පන්සලට මහජන ප්‍රවේශය පහසු විය” යනුවෙන් උපනන්ද තෙර පිළිබිඹු කරයි. පන්සලට පිවිසෙන ප්‍රධාන මාර්ගයෙන් අඩි පාරක් සිහිපත් කළ හැකිය. ඔහු අවුරුදු දහයකට පෙර පළමු වරට පැමිණි විට. “ගැමියෝ අවට පඳුරු වුල්කෙල් ලෙස හැඳින්වූහ.
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  • 5/5 Nirodha R. 7 months ago on Google • 44 reviews
    Calm and soothing atmosphere. Well suited for personal religious events. Get crowded during the evenings.

  • 5/5 Eranga Y. 2 years ago on Google • 30 reviews
    faultless place not too much crowd like kelaniya rajamaha viharaya

  • 5/5 Chatura W. 1 year ago on Google
    Very nice and cool place you must visit if you visit Kelaniya . You'll really feel the calmness .

  • 5/5 Gauraws D. 1 year ago on Google
    One of my best place to go always to get blessings and mind calm

  • 5/5 damith d. 2 years ago on Google
    Very devotional place next to Kelani Rajamaha Vihara.. (Ppl blv to wish a wish by perambulating the Pagoda will fulfill )

  • 5/5 Madura P. 1 year ago on Google
    places to relax your day to day life

  • 5/5 Pethum J. 2 years ago on Google
    The sacred place of stupa where part of Lord Buddha's robe located.

  • 5/5 Heshan D. 1 year ago on Google
    An ancient temple standing very close to Kelaniya Raja Maha Vihara Temple, where the Supreme Gauthama Buddha visited with 500 Arahanths.

  • 3/5 Tharindu D. 1 month ago on Google • 6 reviews New
    Very heritage and secret Mysterious place

  • 5/5 Ruchira Layan K. 4 years ago on Google
    🛐 🙏

  • 5/5 Thilina L. 4 years ago on Google
    Peaceful Temple

  • 5/5 Prasad S. 4 years ago on Google
    Beautiful and peaceful place

  • 5/5 Dino P. 3 years ago on Google
    Peacefull Environment❤

  • 5/5 Chamoth L. 4 years ago on Google
    Very good place of worship for Buddhist.

  • 5/5 Lalith R. 4 years ago on Google
    One who visit Kelaniya Rajamaha Viharaya should go this temple as well to worship...

  • 5/5 Nuwan P. 4 years ago on Google
    According to ancient chronicles, on the invitation of Naga King Maniakkitha, the Buddha visited Kelaniya on a Vesak Poya Day on his third visit to the island. During this visit, before partaking of a mid-day meal prepared by King Maniakkitha, the Buddha reached the bank of the Kelani Ganga and bathed there with 500 disciples. On this occasion, it is said that Buddha stamped his sacred footprint on the river bed for the veneration of the Naga kings, and the ‘Nanakadaya’ robe he clad during his bath has been offered to King Maniakkitha. It is said that the Naga king had built the sprawling dagoba that enshrined a relic of the bathing robe (jalasaatikawa) where the Buddha had changed his bathing robes. Today, the dagoba is known as ‘Sivrudagoba’ which stands majestically in the premises of Kithsirimevan Kelani Raja Maha Viharaya.

  • 5/5 darshana 4 years ago on Google
    Every Buddhist must know the importance of Egoda Kelaniya. The place where Loard Buddha had placed the robe after having a bath ( pan pahasu). Even the rock which Loard Buddha washed the robe is still available.

  • 5/5 animals f. 3 years ago on Google
    (Translated by Google) Good paste (Original) Good tampal

  • 5/5 Mudith M. 3 years ago on Google
    (Translated by Google) Kelani Raja Maha Viharaya beyond Kelani Egoda Kelaniya ☸️ On this sacred Vesak day we are going to share with you about the notoriously popular Egod Kelaniya sacred place beyond the Kelaniya Raja Maha Viharaya. Located close to the historic Kelaniya Raja Maha Viharaya, this sacred place is popularly known as Egoda Kelaniya. One of the reasons why this shrine was not so famous was because it was located across the Kelani River. It is also known as Kithsirimevan Kelani Raja Maha Viharaya. Early crossings were made using a bridge ferry. However, a bridge has been built to reach Kelaniya at Egodaliya. On the way to the Kelani Raja Maha Viharaya at Kithsirimevan, you can reach this place by coming to the Biyagama road from the 4 th post junction on the Colombo-Kandy road. If we talk about the origin of this temple, it goes back to Buddha's time. It is said that the Buddha who came to Kelaniya at the invitation of King Maniakkhika Naa in the 8th year of the Buddha, bathed in the river Kelani before eating the noon meal. This Dagoba which was built by the Buddha was used as the only Dagoba in the world built by the Buddha using a water tank. Later in the year AD It is said that during the reign of King Kithsirimevan (304-328) the reign of King Mahasena's son, this temple was enlarged and a temple complex was built. It is believed that this temple was called the Kithsirimevan Kalani Viharaya. There is also a sacred footprint in the Dagoba. The earliest non-Buddha statues were made, and the Siri Pathula, the Bodhi, the Vajrasana were used to symbolize the Buddha. Don't forget to go to Kelaniya Egoda Kelaniya Located close to the historic Kelaniya Raja Maha Viharaya, this sacred place is popularly known as the Egoda Kelaniya. One of the reasons why this shrine is not so famous is because it is located across the Kelani River. It is also known as Kithsirimevan Kelani Raja Maha Viharaya. Early crossings were made using a bridge ferry. However, even though a bridge has been built to reach the present day at Kelaniya, there are no pilgrims visiting this sacred place. (Original) කැලණියෙන් එහා- එගොඩ කැලණි රජමහා විහාරය Egoda Kelaniya ☸️ මේ පූජනීය වෙසක් පොහෝ දින අපි ඔයාලත් එක්ක බෙදා ගන්න යන්නේ කැලණිය රජමහා විහාරයෙන් එගොඩ පිගිටි එතරම් ප්‍රසිද්ධියක් නොමැති එගොඩ කැලණිය පූජනීය ස්ථානය ගැනයි.. ඓතිහාසික කැලණිය රාජ මහා විහාරය ආසන්නයේම පිහිටලා තිබෙන මේ පුදබිම ප්‍රසිද්ධ වෙලා තියෙන්නේ එගොඩ කැලණිය කියන නමින්. කලින් දක්වපු විදිහට මේ පූජනීය ස්ථානය එතරම් ප්‍රසිද්ධ නොවන්නට එක් හේතුවක් වුණේ කැලණි ගඟෙන් එගොඩ පිහිටා තිබීමයි. මෙය කිත්සිරිමෙවන් කැලණි රාජ මහා විහාරය ලෙසද හදුන්වනු ලැබේ. මුල්කාලීනව පාලම් පාරුවක් භාවිතයෙන් එගොඩ මෙගොඩ යාම සිදුවුණා. කොහොම නමුත් වර්තමානය වෙද්දී එගොඩ කැලණියට යාමට පාලමක් ඉදිකර තිබුණත් මේ පූජනීය ස්ථානයට එතරම් වන්දනාකරුවන්ගේ පැමිණීමක් දැකගන්න නැහැ. කිත්සිරිමෙවන් කැලණි රාජ මහා විහාරයට එන ගමන් මග දැක්වුවොත් කොළඹ - නුවර මාර්ගයේ 4 කණුව මංසන්ධියෙන් බියගම දෙසට ඇති මාර්ගයේ පැමිණීමෙන් මේ පුදබිමට පැමිණෙන්න පුළුවන්. මේ විහාරය මූලාරම්භය ගැන කතා කළොත් බුද්ධ කාලය දක්වා දිව යනවා. බුද්ධත්වයෙන් 8 වන වර්ෂයේ මණිඅක්ඛික නා රජතුමාගේ ආරාධනයෙන් කැලණියට වැඩම කළ බුදුන් වහන්සේ දහවල් දානය වැළදීමට පෙර කැලණි නදියේ ස්නානය කළ බවත් එහිදී උන් වහන්සේ භාවිතා කළ නානකඩය එහෙමත් නැත්නම් ජලසාටිකාව තැන්පත් කරලා මණිඅක්ඛික නා රජු කිත්සිරිමෙවන් කැලණි විහාර දාගැබ ඉදිකරවූ බව තමයි කියවෙන්නේ. බුදුන් වහන්සේ පරිභෝග කළ වස්තුවක් තැන්පත් කරලා ඉදිකරපු මේ දාගැබ බුදුන් වහන්සේ පරිහරණය කරපු ජලසාටිකාවක් තැන්පත් කරලා ඉදිකරවපු ලොව එකම දාගැබ විදිහටත් හඳුන්වන්න පුළුවන්. පසුකාලීනව ක්‍රි.ව. 304 - 328 කාලයේ කිත්සිරිමෙවන් රජ දවස ඒ කියන්නේ මහසෙන් රජතුමාගේ පුත්‍රයාගේ රාජ්‍ය කාලය තුළ මේ දාගැබ තවත් විශාල කරවලා විහාරාරාම සංකීර්ණයක් ඉදිකෙරුණු බව කියවෙනවා. ඒ නිසාම මේ විහාරයට කිත්සිරිමෙවන් කැලණි විහාරය යන නාමය යෙදුණු බවයි විශ්වාස කෙරෙන්නේ. එසේම දාගැබේ මලසුන්ගෙයක තබා වන්දනා කරන සිරිපතුලක්ද දැක ගත හැක. බුද්ධ ප්‍රතිමා නිර්මාණය නොකෙරුණු මුල්කාලීනව බුදුන් වහන්සේ සංකේතවත් කිරීමට සිරි පතුල, බෝධිය, වජ්‍රාසනය වැනි දෑ භාවිතා වුණු අතර මේ සිරි පතුලද එවැන්නකි. කැලණිය වන්දනා කරන්න යන ඔබ මෙහි යන්න අමතක කරන්න එපා.. Egoda Kelaniya Egoda Kelaniya Temple Located close to the historic Kelaniya Raja Maha Viharaya, this sacred place is popularly known as Egoda Kelaniya. One of the reasons why this shrine was not so famous was because it was located across the Kelani River. It is also known as Kithsirimevan Kelani Raja Maha Viharaya. Early crossings were made using a bridge ferry. However, even though a bridge has been built to reach Kelaniya at the present day, there are no pilgrims visiting this sacred place.

  • 5/5 HK W. 4 years ago on Google
    Most important historical place.

  • 4/5 mind m. 4 years ago on Google
    (Translated by Google) My favorite place is e (Original) මම නම් ආසම තැනක් ❤

  • 5/5 Kavinga J. 4 years ago on Google
    Wow

  • 5/5 Minidu M. 4 years ago on Google
    It is so beautiful

  • 5/5 Achini N. 4 years ago on Google
    (Translated by Google) An ancient temple (Original) පෞරාණික පන්සලක්

  • 5/5 Iroshanal L. 4 years ago on Google
    Relax place. No more peoples

  • 5/5 Uditha A. 4 years ago on Google
    As a historicle temple....

  • 5/5 Lakindu J. 4 years ago on Google
    Religious place.


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