Sigiriya, the amazing 'Lion rock' fortress, stands majestically overlooking the adorable blooming boscage surroundings, and is one of Sri Lanka's aloft attractions.
This was congenital by King Kasyapa, a son of King Dhatusena, by a alcazar consort. As fable goes, King Dhatusena was baffled and belted in, animate by Kasyapa in 473 AD. Mogallana, Dhatusena's son by the accurate queen fled to India, vowing revenge.
Kasyapa fearing an aggression congenital this alarming breastwork at Sigiriya.
When the aggression assuredly came in 491, Kasyapa rode out to action in his war elephant.In an attack to out-flank his half-brother, Kasyapa took a amiss turn, breadth his albatross got ashore in the mud. His soldiers, cerebration Kasyapa was beat fled abandoning him, and he took his own life.
Sigiriya after became a apostolic refuge, but eventually fell into disrepair.
Water Gardens
The beautifully and elaborately landscaped baptize gardens, accommodate a circuitous arrangement of underground baptize administration system, which provides baptize to the Aristocratic baths, the abounding little moated islands & fountains, some fountains still plan during the backing season! A superb appearance of the Breadth could be had from center up the rock.
Frescoes - The Sigiriya Damsels
About center up the bedrock is a cloistral arcade of frescoes corrective on the arduous bedrock face. The 'Heavenly Maidens' are agnate in appearance to the paintings of Ajantha in India. Some of them are still in appreciably acceptable condition. Alone 22 out of an estimated 500 pictures now remain. Flash photography is not accustomed at this site.The Mirror Bank with Graffiti
Beyond the adorn gallery, the alleyway circles the the arduous face of the rock, and is adequate by a 3m top wall. This bank was coated with a mirror-smooth glaze, in which visitors over 1000 years ago acclaimed their impressions of the women in the arcade above. The graffiti was mostly inscribed amid the 7th and 11th Century AD. 685 of them accept been deciphered and published. The graffiti are a abundant antecedent for the advisers to abstraction the development of the Sinhala accent and script.
Lion Platform
The Northern end of the bedrock the alleyway emerges to a platform, from which the bedrock derives its name Sigiriya (the Bobcat Rock). At one time a gigantic brick bobcat sat at the end of the rock, and the final ascendance to the acme was amid the lions paws and into it's mouth! Today the bobcat has disappeared, alone the paws and the aboriginal accomplish are visible.
The Summit
Covering an breadth of about 1.6 hectares, the charcoal of the foundations appearance that the acme would accept been absolutely covered with buildings. The design, blueprint and arresting angle that it still enjoys to this day, advance Sigiriya would accept been added of a aristocratic alcazar of amusement than a fortress. A pond biconcave out of solid bedrock barometer 27m x 21m, looks like a avant-garde rooftop pool. A bland slab of collapsed stone, generally referred to as the kings rock throne, faces the ascent sun.
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