| Official Name: | Alawathugoda අලවතුගොඩ |
| Settlement Type: | Village |
| Pushpin Map: | Sri Lanka#India |
| Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | Sri Lanka |
| Subdivision Name1: | Central Province |
| Subdivision Type2: | District |
| Subdivision Name2: | Kandy District |
| Subdivision Type3: | Divisional secretariat |
| Subdivision Name3: | Akurana Divisional Secretariat |
| Unit Pref: | Imperial |
| Timezone: | Sri Lanka Standard Time |
| Utc Offset: | +5:30 |
Alawathugoda (Sinhala: අලවතුගොඩ) is a village in Sri Lanka.
It lies north of Kandy, on the road to Matale, in Kandy District of Central Province.
A toll station once stood where the road to Kurunegala joins the main road. A resthouse once also stood, the building then becoming a government-operated school. The school recorded 68 boys and 1 girl in 1887, with 74 students in 1893.[1]
Former arachchies of the village include Herat Mudiyanse Kalu Banda (1855), Mudiyanselage Punchirala (1862), Ekanekege Ukku Banda (1863), Harasgama Walawwe Tikiri Banda (1867), Herat Mudiyanselage Kiri Banda (1872), Mawatupola Welege Punchirala (1882), Herat Mudiyanselage Ukku Banda (1882), and Wijekon Mudiyanselage Kalugalage Kirala (1888).[1]
See main article: Alawathugoda Saman Devalaya. A Buddhist dewale sits in Alawatugoda, standing on a mass of bare granite rising a few feet above the surrounding land. It was a place of sanctity during Kandyan times. Tradition states that the temple possessed a Sannas from King Walgambahu that was lost in the Rebellion of 1818. Close to the dewale was a vihara; both were burned by a party of English soldiers from Trincomalee, only the dewale having been rebuilt. A bo-tree growing from a hollow in a rock below the dewale is said to conceal the entrance to a "potgula", or cave, where sacred books are buried. Others claim the spot as the original site of the vihara, and as of the writing of Archibald Campbell Lawrie's 1896 gazetteer of the province, plans were made by worshippers to build a daboga at the site.[1]