Heritage

Sri Dalada Maligawa(Temple of the Tooth Relic)

The Sri Dalada Maligawa or The Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic is a temple in the city of Kandy in Sri Lanka. It was built within the royal palace complex which houses the one of the two surviving relic of the tooth of Buddha, an object of veneration for Buddhists. The other tooth relic is believed to be enshrined in a stupa called Somawathi Chethiya.

King Wimaladharmasuriya I (1592 - 1603), the first to select Kandy as the ruling capital originally built a two storied Temple for the Relic and brought the tooth relic from Delgamuwa near Kuruwita in Sabaragamuwa which has been hidden for protection. Remains of this temple no longer exist. Wimaladharmasuriya II (1686 - 1706) built a three storied temple and his son king Viraparakrama Narendrasinha (1706 - 1738), the last Sinhalese king to rule the country, built a new two storied temple temple seeing that the old temple built by his father has decayed. The last king of Sri lanka, Sri Wickrama Rajasinghe (1797 - 1814) built the Pattirippuwa (the Octagon). Originally, the Pattirippuwa (octagon) was part of the royal palace. It was used by the king to address his follow countrymen. Today the Pattirippuwa has become a part of the temple and houses ancient textures written in ola leaves.


Sigiriya(8th Wonder of the World)

Instead the 5 th Century and the king who govern the country at 477 BC is King Kashapa made the very beautiful ancient and architectural places which is  8 th wonder 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.

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