This shrine room is a brick build vaulted type building made in early period of Polonnaruwa (11th cen. AD). The main statue of the Buddha was a seated one made out of bricks now almost destroyed with the time. The ornamentation on the exterior walls reveals Dravidian influence on the construction of Buddhist monuments. Architectural models had been on the exterior walls hint at the grandeur of Polonnaruwa in heyday.

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