Note 103 — Chapter XI · FROM KANDY TO ANURADHAPURA
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The erection of seventy-two images and the gilding of the temple is generally ascribed to Kirti Nissanga, who succeeded to the throne A.D. 1192, and whose image is preserved in two of the caves, but on the Galpota or Stone Book at Pollonarua there is a reference to his having simply re-gilded the images.