Situated at Mahamevnāwa Park in Anuradhapura Samadhi Buddha statue depicted in the posture of meditation associated with Lord Buddhas’ first Enlightenment. The Statue is 7’3″ in height, hewn from a single granite rock and said to have had two jewels for the eyes which are said to have gone missing in around 1914.The veracity of this is in question as the eyes are closed with no place for jewels. The canopy over the statue was constructed in 1959/60.