New museum for Ramba viharaya

Raja Waidyasekera Tissamaharama special correspondent

Southern Province Chief Minister Shan Vijaya Lal De Silva has taken steps to set up a museum at historical Ramba Viharaya at Ambalantota to protect the archaeological objects unearthed from the viharaya premises.

Rs. 10 lkhas has been set aside for the construction of t he first phase.

It is said that when Magama kingdom came into existence the Ramba viharaya came under the purview of Magama Kingdom. The stone inscriptions say that the Pathra Dhatu and Tooth relic of the Buddha have been at this sylvan shrine in ancient days.