Mediaeval Sinhalese Art c7.127

c7.127

Even very old and infirm people undertake this pilgrimage; it was undertaken by more than one king. Lawrie (p. 119) mentions that Kapuvatte Kumārihāmi, a very wealthy lady, ‘in old age and extreme weakness . . . undertook a pilgrimage to Adam’s Peak, and died in February, 1884, when she was being carried down the mountain on the back of one of her vassals.’