{"id":91261,"date":"2019-07-11T14:09:43","date_gmt":"2019-07-11T21:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=91261"},"modified":"2019-07-11T14:09:43","modified_gmt":"2019-07-11T21:09:43","slug":"gurukanda-raja-maha-viharaya-mullativu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/07\/11\/gurukanda-raja-maha-viharaya-mullativu\/","title":{"rendered":"Gurukanda Raja Maha Viharaya , Mullativu"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Ranjith Soysa<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The Director\nGeneral of Archaeology confirmed in Mullativu Magistrate courts before the\nMagistrate S L. Kumar that Guru Kanda Viharaya in Nayaru on the basis of\nhistorical and archaeological evidence dates back to 2000 years, He further\nemphasized that the building of a new Hindu kovil inside the historical site\nwas illegal. The court hearing was on 12 Feb 2019 consequent on a dispute\narising from a protest staged and led by former TNA politician T.Raviharan&nbsp; on 14th January 2019 on the Thai Pongal Day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The protestors continued to vandalize the site by attempting to put up a\nbuilding and lighting fires etc in the archaeologically accepted site in the\nbreach of rules covering the protection of such a site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"229\" height=\"172\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/gurukanda-vihara1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-91262\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"229\" height=\"172\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/gurukanda-vihara2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-91263\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>If the viharaya site is 2000 years old it has to be assumed that there\ncould not have been another building in this place. It is also possible to\nexplore and investigate more scientifically the area and confirm the rightful\nownership of the land without allowing for the unlawful elements to decide the\nfate of the site while paving way for violence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We request the law enforcing authorities and the Director Archaeological\nto step in settle this is issue in a more amicable and a peaceful manner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ranjith Soysa <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ranjith Soysa The Director General of Archaeology confirmed in Mullativu Magistrate courts before the Magistrate S L. Kumar that Guru Kanda Viharaya in Nayaru on the basis of historical and archaeological evidence dates back to 2000 years, He further emphasized that the building of a new Hindu kovil inside the historical site was illegal. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ranjith-soysa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}