Samanalakanda, Sri Pada or Adam’s peak in history

Samanalakanda, rising to 2243m or 7362’ is in the Ratnapura District of the Sabaragamuva Province. Perhaps, there is no other mountain in the world, as famous as Sripada, and so extensively referred to, down the ages, in various literatures, as Adam’s Peak. Traditional belief among Sinhala Buddhists is that the peak holds the footprint of Gauta...