High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Tondeswaram temple was situated south of the main town of Galle and in a place called Dondra Head is supposedly one of the five ancient Shiva temples around the island of Sri Lanka. It is one that is yet to be properly identified and rebuilt and venerated by Hindus, because it is situated in an area that is mostly Sinhala Buddhist in orientation.Dondra Head also known as Devinuwara, Devundra, Dondra was an important entry port in medieval Sri lanka and housed merchants from around Asia. Amongst them South Indian traders from Tamil Nadu were prominent. Merchant guilds from India are known to have newly built or maintained previously built cultic shrines across South and South East Asia.Many epigraphic evidence in Sinhalese, Tamil, Pali and Sanskrit found in the vicinity during the last 100 years speak of an area that housed many Hindu temples including one dedicated to Shiva.

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