Dead body found in Ruhunu Kataragama Temple

According to whimsical history Ruhunu Kataragama Maha Devalaya (at right) was built by King Dutugemunu around 160 years B.c. in fulfillment of a guarantee to whipping King Elara in battle. It was contributed with gigantic level of territory by King Dutugemunu for its help and resulting rulers did in like way. The 'building is an essential structure of two pads and with no embellishments or show of greatness. It has not encountered any major structural adjustments, in the midst of this long extend of in abundance of 2,000 years since its advancement. Rubeiro in his History of Ceylon says that 'four gatherings inland from this perceive (the salterns in Hambantota) is a Pagoda held in remarkable appreciation by the Grutiles; here are shielded the offerings which had been made for a few ages, embodying gold,

pearls and important stones, and 500 outfitted men are always stayed aware of all due admiration". This was in 1642 when Rubeiro was one of the 150 Portuguese and 2,000 Lascarins who made a vain try to discover this Pagoda and plunder its wealth, yet "were propelled to turn back the way we had come without effecting anything and without really seeing the Pagoda, which is called Catergao".