The swimming-pool-like Twin Ponds, the finest bathing tanks in Anuradhapura, are a little east of Sanghamitta Mawatha. They were probably used by monks from the monastery attached to the Abhayagiri Dagoba. Although they are referred to as twins, the southern pond, 28m in length, is smaller than the 40m-long northern pond. Water entered the larger pond through the mouth of a makara (mythical multispecies beast) and then flowed to the smaller pond through an underground pipe.
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