Place · Ramayana temple site · Sri Lanka
Divurumpola
/diʋuɾumpola/
Also known as Divurumpola Raja Maha Vihara, Divrumpola, Diurumpola
A site near Bandarawela in Uva Province, traditionally identified as where Sita underwent her Agni Pariksha — the fire ordeal — to prove her chastity after being recovered from Ravana. The name means "Place of the Oath" in Sinhala. A small temple marks the spot and it remains one of the more emotionally freighted stops on Sri Lanka's Ramayana Trail.
- Periods
- Republic and Living Practice
- Function
- Sacred site & pilgrimage
- Confidence
- Traditional / narrative attribution
- Location
- 6.850, 80.983
Worth knowing
Divurumpola is also invoked in local Sri Lankan legal and civic tradition as a place where oaths are sworn, with the Ramayana association reinforcing that sense over time. A large bo tree at the site is treated as witness to oaths. The temple is a functioning Buddhist site that also welcomes Hindu pilgrims on the Ramayana circuit.
The Ramayana identification is traditional; the oath-taking function is a locally documented practice but not archaeologically or textually tied to the epic.
Connections (1)
- Mythic sequenceNuwara Eliya
Divurumpola near Bandarawela is identified as the site of Sita's fire ordeal, and it sits within a cluster around Nuwara Eliya — Seetha Eliya, Hakgala and the Ashoka Vatika traditions — that the Sri Lankan tourism board markets as a Ramayana trail. Most of these identifications are recent, assembled since the 1990s for Indian visitors, which makes the trail a good example of sacred geography being built in the present rather than inherited.
On these journeys
Sources
Sri Lanka Tourism Board
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