Pollanarrua

Pollanarrua, a ruined city of Ceylon, 60 miles ENE. of Kandy, with a massive dagoba, a rock-cut temple, masses of sculptured stones, and a wide area of ruined buildings that attest the size and importance of the city, which became the capital of the kingdom about 770, after the Malabar invasion ruined Anuradhapura, the former capital. The city stood on the site of an immense tank, still called Topaweva or Topare. The place was first made known to Europeans in 1820.