The Bentota Kali Temple Destroyed by the Portuguese
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- Catalogue identifier
- kali-fifty-038
- Alternate titles and import identifiers
- KALI-50-038
- Author or attribution
- N. K. S. Thiruchelvam
- Record type
- Book
- Language
- Tamil
- Date / edition
- 2018
- Source / repository
- Noolaham Digital Library
- Access
- Open access
- Subjects
- 50 Full-Text Sources — November 2026; Living devotion and temple records
Description and curator notes
Book-length Tamil account of the Kali temple at Bentota, Sri Lanka, its destruction under the Portuguese, and later memories and rebuilding efforts. Treat its historical claims as the author’s argument, not independently established facts.
Curator source KALI-50-038. Living devotion and temple records. Export dated 5 November 2026.
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38 The Bentota Kali Temple Destroyed by the Portuguese
N. K. S. Thiruchelvam • 2018
Local historical monograph • Tamil
Arundhati Pathippagam; Noolaham document 111378
Book-length Tamil account of the Kali temple at Bentota, Sri Lanka, its destruction under the Portuguese, and later memories and rebuilding efforts. Treat its historical claims as the author’s argument, not independently established facts.
Access: Complete 90-page public scan. Treat its historical reconstruction as the author’s argument, not as independently confirmed history.
Full text: https://noolaham.net/project/1114/111378/111378.pdf
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Citation
N. K. S. Thiruchelvam. The Bentota Kali Temple Destroyed by the Portuguese. Noolaham Digital Library. 2018. Local historical monograph • Tamil
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