The palace is walled about with a clay wall and Thatched, to prevent the claye's being melted by the Rains,Which are great and violent. Within this wall it is all full of houses. Most of which are low and thatched but some are two storyies high,and tyled very handsomely,with open galleries for air,reyled about with turned banisters. One ebony and one painted but not much prospect standing between two hills. And indeed the king lives there not so much for pleasure as security.
The palace it self hath many large and stately gates two leaved these gates, with there posts eexcellently caved, the Iron work there unto belonging, as bolts and locks, all recrely engraven. The windows in layd with silver plates and ebony on the top of the houses of his palace and treasury, stand earthen pots at each corner, which are for ornament or which is a newer fashion, something made of earth resembling flowers and branches. And no houses besides, except temples, may have these placed upon them.
The contrivance of his palace is as it may say like woodstock bower, with many turnings and windings and doors. He himself having ordered and contrived all these buildings and the manner of them.
At all tge doors and passages stand watches and they who thus give attendance are not to pass without special order from one place to another, but are to remain in that place or at that gate, where the king hath appointed temple by means of these contrivances it is not easie to know in what partbor palace his person is neither doth he care they should.
Today you can see the massive granite entrance door frames, dragon carvings, moonstones, finely decorated pillors steps and many other granite ortifacts which has been used to build the Pothgul maligawa. Wich became the Pothgul maligawa since the temple was built with the matrial from the Hanguranketha maligawa. It is also said that special copper tiles. Were importanted from spain to tile the roof.
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Pothgul maligawa ( the end )
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