India history and geography

Source: archive.org: Ceylon Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 1963

Hattoṭa is the name of an ancient locality that existed in the Polonnaruva (Polonnaruwa) district of Ceylon (Sri Lanka).—[... also see Amban-Ganga...] The Kalu-Ganga was dammed at Hattoṭa (near Pallegama) at an elevation of 500 feet and the water was conveyed northward along a canal, now ruined, which appears to come to an abrupt termination after about 16 miles. The local tradition is that this canal formerly continued a further 12 miles and entered the Amban-Gaṅga just above the Alahara anicut, but only one short length of the old bund is now recognisable on the ground in this section. Brohier conjectures that over this section which is “particularly rugged and broken up by parcels of precipitous country—the water was carried over these rocky ledges in a series of aqueducts of which all traces have vanished”. If the tradition is true, then the Hattoṭa Amuṇa, some 30 miles above Alahdra, was the source of the Miṇṇeriya-Giritale-Kavuḍulla-Kantalāy irrigation system, and, as will be shown later, a subsidiary source for the Parakkamasamudda system.

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The history of India traces the identification of countries, villages, towns and other regions of India, as well as mythology, zoology, royal dynasties, rulers, tribes, local festivities and traditions and regional languages. Ancient India enjoyed religious freedom and encourages the path of Dharma, a concept common to Buddhism, Hinduism, and Jainism.

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Full-text: Pallegama, Kalu-ganga, Kadduravaddhamanaka, Arimaddavijayaggama, Giritalakavapi, Dambalavava, Kaduruvadunna, Divulanakadavalavava.

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