阿努拉德普勒北側的一座重要寺院，由 Vaṭṭagāmaṇī Abhaya 王建於原為外道苦行處的舊址之上，其僧團後來從大寺教團中分離，另立一派。

A major monastic establishment on the north side of Anurādhapura, built by King Vaṭṭagāmaṇī Abhaya on the site of an earlier ascetics’ hermitage, whose community later broke away to form a separate fraternity from the Mahāvihāra.