Apr 10, 2024 · The Sigiriya Graffiti dates from 600AD to 1400AD and consists of over 1800 pieces of prose, poetry, and commentary written by ancient tourists on the surface of the Mirror Wall at Sigiriya in Sri Lanka.

Nov 18, 2021 · Prof. Senerat Paranavitana has deciphered 685 of the graffiti and has published them in a two-volume publication titled Sigiri Graffiti, and subsequently, several other scholars have also deciphered and published other graffiti available on the mirror wall.

Sigiriya or Sinhagiri (Lion Rock Sinhala: සීගිරිය, Tamil: சிகிரியா/சிங்ககிரி, pronounced SEE-gi-ri-yə) is an ancient rock fortress located in the northern Matale District near the town of Dambulla in the Central Province, Sri Lanka.

Nov 11, 2023 · Sigiri graffiti. The rock fortress of Sigiriya rises upfront the low jungle-clad regions of dry-zone Ceylon about 40 miles south-east of Anuradhapura, which was the site of the capital city of Ceylon for over a thousand years beginning at least as early as the third century BC.

Jan 17, 2021 · At the end of the 4th century BCE, King Kashyapa built a new capital with a new royal palace in Sigiriya. It has become a phenomenal UNESCO heritage site. This book provides the translation in...

Inscribed today on UNESCO’s World Heritage List, Sigiriya, an archaeological site in central Sri Lanka, may be one of the oldest gardens known in Asia. The late antique (4th–7th century) remains of buildings, zoomorphic architecture and rock paintings upon its central outcrop have elicited interpretation since the late 19th century (Figs 1 and 2).

Nov 8, 2023 · The Sigiriya Graffiti were written on the surface of the Mirror Wall at Sigiriya in Sri Lanka between 600AD and 1400AD. Scribbled on the wall are over 1800 pieces of prose, poetry and commentary written by ancient tourists.

Mar 15, 2011 · Sigiri Graffiti, being Sinhalese Verses of the Eighth, Ninth, and Tenth Centuries (Archæological Survey of Ceylon). By S. Paranavitana. Vol. I, Introduction and plates, pp. ccxxi + 55 plates. Vol. II, Texts and Translation with notes and glossary, 472 pages. £10 10s. | Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society | Cambridge Core.

Feb 10, 2008 · It is not often recognized that some of the most astonishing documents in the ancient world are the Sigiri Graffiti. Consisting of more than 1500 serving writings, many of them fragmentary, they are in a true sense unique, with no parallel elsewhere.

After the fall of Kassapa, many local visitors had heard of the Sigiriya rock fortress ruins. Their many visits were recorded in the form of graffiti on the mirror wall. Graffiti are poems written in the Sinhalese language. These Sigiriya graffiti describe the beauty of Sigiriya damsels. Some of the described paintings have not survived.