KEBILTITA

Twenty miles nowhere from the Menik-ganga along a long green trail you may stumble On talaguruhela (794ft) one of the many rocky fingers that thrust up above the crust at Yala's north-east edge. But  can get to

Talaguruhela from the kubukkanoya, four miles which take you past Kebilitta, lonely tree shrine of Pattini, perched on the verge he virgin forest. Few travelers through that charmed vale, haunt of  dryads and hamadryads, fail to drop by Not out of holy dread. No hiorrid demon goddess was (or is) she, no licentious Ashtoreth. 

Pattini is Kannaki of the ancient Tamil poem,  the silappadikaram,  who gave all for love , whose rites Gaja Bahu brought over to this Buddhist land in the 2nd Century AD where her name forever connotes virtue and married chastily. pattini is Tara of the stolen bronzes of the Boston Museum. Pattini is Tara of the boddhissvas of high mahanayism, Gaja Bahu first installed her at Namagamura. Then there is the pattini devale of the famous kandy perehera. There is this little kebillitta, and there are a score or more of her shrines.

Kubukkan Oya

Pattini Devi