パンドゥカーバヤ王がヤッキニーを一度捕らえた場所であり、後にシンハラ王たちとタミル軍との戦争のあいだ何度も手を替えた、スリランカの戦略上重要な渡し場。

A strategically important river ford in Sri Lanka, the site where King Paṇḍukābhaya once captured a yakkhiṇī and which later changed hands repeatedly during the wars between Sinhalese kings and Tamil forces.