Dondra Head is a cape on the extreme southern tip of Sri Lanka, in the Indian Ocean, near the small town of Dondra. There is a lighthouse and a vihara (Buddhist temple). There was a temple to Vishnu with a gilt copper roof, destroyed by the Portuguese, and the place still attracts pilgrims today to the Dondra Fair and Perahera, held in the month of Esala (July-August). Vihara (विहार) is Sanskrit or Pali for (Buddhist) monastery. ... Vishnu (IAST , Devanagari ), (honorific: Sri Vishnu) also known as Narayana is the Supreme Being or Ultimate Reality for Vaishnavas and a manifestation of Brahman in the Advaita or Smarta traditions. ...

Dondra Head was once the capital of the country.

See also

• Tondeswaram

This article incorporates text from the public domain 1907 edition of The Nuttall Encyclopædia. 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. ... The public domain comprises the body of all creative works and other knowledge—writing, artwork, music, science, inventions, and others—in which no person or organization has any proprietary interest. ... The Nuttall Encyclopædia is an early-20th-century encyclopedia, edited by Rev. ...