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in the aiva temple at Nahiyappitti a Buddha image was found
under a stone step in the temple tank A lime-stone Buddha
image and the remains of an ancient dgba were unearthed at
Ni1varai, in Navakri Among the debris were two sculptured
fragments of shaped coral atèneB with a stthne-railing design.
According to D.T.Devendra, who conducted the excavation at this
site, the dgba can be dated at least to the tenth century
Near these ruins are the foundations of an ancient building
and in the middle of these is a modern iva temple. It has
been conjectured, and rightly so, that the old fotindations are
those of the vihra attached to the ancient dba Buddha
images have also been discovered in Uuvil, Kantarai and
Jaffna town Kantarai has yislded very important Buddhist
finds which prove the existence of an important Buddhist
1. P.E.Peiris, 'adipa and Buddhist Remains in Jaffna',
J.P.A.S. (C.B.), OCVI, No.70, 1917, p. 26.
2. A.S.C.A.R. for 195k, p. 32 ; ibid. for 1955, pp.17-19.
3. A.S.C.A.R. for 1955, p. 19.
k. Ibid.
5. S.Kumaracuvami, 'V4a _attua Cila Iappeyark4 Vara1',
in the a-vaipava-kaumuti by ILVeluppilai, Jaffna, 1918,
p.1k ; P.E.Peiria, . cii., p.25 ff.; J.P.A.S. (C.B.), XXVI,
No.70, p. 11.3, C.A.Z.P., II, pt. 2, p.96.