anarajapura

Updated: May 10, 2025

Here again we stopped a little while to run up to Kandy and to visit the ruined city of Anarajapura with its great Buddhist topes that once again gave rise to religious argument between my two friends. Leaving Ceylon we struck across the Indian Ocean for Perth in Western Australia. It was a long voyage, since to save our coal we made most of it under canvas.

Henry Rider Haggard - When the World Shook; being an account of the great adventure of Bastin, Bickley and Arbuthnot

Let those who have stood among the buried cities of Central Asia, or of Anarajapura in Ceylon, or even amid the ruins of Salamis on the coast of Cyprus, answer the question. But here was something infinitely more awful. A huge human haunt in the bowels of the earth utterly devoid of human beings, and yet as perfect as on the day when these ceased to be.

Henry Rider Haggard - When the World Shook; being an account of the great adventure of Bastin, Bickley and Arbuthnot