Baghawa Lena (Diva Guhawa) in Sri Pada Mountain

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 🖋️  Diva Guhava is the only place of Solosmasthana which has not been properly identified. It is said in Mahavamsa, that after preaching dhamma to the deity Sumana Saman at Sri Pada mountain, he spent the day in the Diva Guhava Cave on the side of this mountain.

During his lifetime, Buddha visited the island of Sri Lanka three times. These visits are described in detail in the Mahavamsa, the Great Chronicle of Sri Lanka, and in ancient writings such as Pujavaliya, Samantapasadika, and Buthsarana also mention these visits. These sixteen places hallowed by Buddha are collectively called Solosmasthana.

The First visit of Buddha was in the 9th month after the attainment of his Enlightenment, the Buddhahood to Mahiyangana. This was to stop a war between Yaksha and Naga tribes. Mahavamsa says that he conquered the yakshas there and sent them to an island named Giri, thereby setting the background for the establishment of Buddhism in the country later on, where the Buddha knew that the Dhamma would prevail “in all its glory”.

The Buddha’s second visit to Sri Lanka was made to Nagadipa in the fifth year after attaining enlightenment, where he settled a dispute between Naga kings Chulodara and Mahodara regarding a jewel-studded chair. In the eighth year after enlightenment, the Buddha made his third and final visit to the country accompanied by 500 bhikkhus. This visit was to Kelaniya and was due to an invitation by a Naga king named Maniakkika, who had asked the Buddha to come to his kingdom during the previous visit.

The Buddha visited the dwelling of the Sumana Saman at Samanthakuta (now known as Sri Pada Mountain) whom he had met during the first visit to Mahiyangana.

Current opinions of Diva Guhava are focussed on 3 locations. The first one is the cave known as Bhagawa Lena below the Sri Pada Summit. The other popular belief is that the Batathota Cave is the Diva Guhava mentioned in ancient texts. This cave lies in Erathana in Ratnapura off the Sri Pada route and is very popular among tourists as well as pilgrims. The third belief is Diva Guhava lies in the ancient monastery complex of Kuragala.

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