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For the upcoming art exhibition, Kala Pola Art Market 2018 on Ananda Coomaraswamy Mawatha, Colombo 7.

According to the chronicle Mahavamsa, King Devanampiyathissa (250-210 BC) had refurbished 68 caves for the use of Arhath Mahinda Thero. From the early Brahmi inscriptions found below the drip-ledges of these caves, it could be proves beyond doubt that the caves had been prepared for the use of the Sangha during the Pre-Christian era.