Ancient Heritage of Sri Lanka
Sigiri Rock (8th Wonder of the world)
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the 5th Century and the king who govern the country at 477 BC is King Kashapa made the very beautiful ancient and
architectural places which is 8th wander of the world called Sigiriya.
Kashapa chose the Sigiriya as his kingdom and he made not only the kingdom
but also beautiful water flowers and flower gardens and many architectural
places.
King Kashapa made the rock flowers at rocks and crated steps nice ways with carvings and in the gap he made a nice wall called Katapath pawra "Lyrics wall". He made the Sigiriya as Lion. Some called this for Lion rock. Sigiriya means also The rock of Lion. In this time we can see only two legs althogh in that time people might seen the fully lion rock. The kingdom was situated at top of the rock and it is near 3 1/2 sqkms. Sigiriya has best architectural qualities of Asia. Sigirya garden only second in the world for old roman gardens. There fore most people come to visit Sigiriya. Another fact of Sigiriya is in Sigiri rock has various type of paintings. All painting has a queens or women. There may be many paintings although now we can see little amounts of paintings. old people write there lyrics about Sigiri paintings in Katapath Pawra means lysics wall. Visit the Sigiriya and Protect it for Future....
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