Pandatharippu

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Pandatharippu (Tamil: பண்டத்தரிப்பு) is a village in the northern Jaffna District of Sri Lanka. It was a mission location when the American Ceylon Mission (ACM) came to Sri Lanka in the 1800’s. Dr. John Scudder founded the Asia’s first western medical center in this village. It is also was known as Panditeripo in ACM documents. . There are number of schools some which were founded by ACM and Churches and Hindu Temples in the village [1]

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  1. ^ Waterbury Jared Bell (1870) Memoir of the Rev. John Scudder, M.D.: Thirty-six Years Missionary in India, Harper & Brothers, Franklin Square, New York, retrieved 7/19/2007 full text

Coordinates: 9°46′23″N 79°58′3″E / 9.77306, 79.9675

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