
Mahailuppallama Buddha Statue (මහඉලුප්පල්ලම බුදු පිළිමය)
A standing Buddha image 1.78 meters in height possibly belong yo 2nd -4th centuries of Amaravati marble, discovered from Mahailluppallama is now in the Anuradhapura museum. When building a model farm on a land belonging to the Agriculture Faculty, University of Peradeniya, the bulldozer used for levelling the land hit the statue which lay buried for centuries on the 23rd of March, 1946.