SIGIRIYA THE LIONS GATE

WHAT IS THIS SIGIRIYA

Rock of Sigiriya is actually a rocked remained alone with the soil around it washed away long time ago. before king Kashyapa turnthis rock into a fortress sigiriya was civilized .

king Kashyapa is son of king Dathusena who reigned in capital of Anuradhapura. kashyapa put his father in to death and ran away to Matale area and found this giant rock.

before occupation of sigiriya by king kashyapa ,sigiriya was a Buddhist monastery. This monastic complex consists of

38 caves which were in used from 3rd B.Sc. to 2nd c.e.after king kashyapa came to sigiriya all the

Buddhist monks moved in to PIDURANGALA TEMPLE.

SIGIRIYA ROCK

Sigiriya consists of an ancient citadel built by King Kashyapaduring the 5th century. The Sigiriya site contains the ruins of an

upper palace located on the flat top of the rock, a mid-level terrace that includesthe Lion Gate an the mirror wall with its frescoes, the lower palaces located

behind the lavish lower gardens, and moats anramparts which protected the citadel. The site was both a palace and a fortress.The upper palace on the top of the rock includes cisterns cut into the rock that

still retain water.The moats and walls that surround the lower palace are still exquisitely beautiful.

TERRACE OF THE LIONS PAWS

The sculpted lion's head which might have been breathtaking had the power to win the admiration of the visitors to sigiriya of the days goes by as mentioned in some of the poems of the graffiti .how ever at present only the colossal front two paws of the lion are visible.

Then access to the top of the rock from the lion’s paw terrace had branches out through the lion's mouth the gigantic size of the lion’s head could be gauged from the cut marks left on the rock face to indicate the limit of its construction .the two paws which remain now of the lion had been constructed in brick and plastered with thick layer of lime mortar.

THOESE DAYS HOW KING KASHYAPA GET OVER TO HIS UPPER PALACE ?

DID HE USED STAIRCASE TO CLIMB UP ?

DID HE USED A SECRET ELEVATOR ?

DID HE USED A FLYING MACHINE ?....

OR

WHAT IF KING KASHYAPA USED A FLYING MACHINE TO CLIMB UP ...

LONG TIME AGO THERE WAS A HINDU LEGEND KING CALLED “RAVANA”.HE RULED SRILANAKA.

ACCORDING TO THE MYTH RAVANA HAD A FLYING MACHINE CALLED “DANDUMONARAYA”. THIS AMAZING TECHNOLOGY WE HAD BEFOREALL THESE ANURADAPURA ,SIGIRI KINGDOMS BEGINS.

IF KING KASHYAPA ALSO HAD A FLYING MECHINE SIMILAR TO WHATRAVANA HAD,

WHAT WILL IT LOOKS LIKE......

KING KASHYAPA’S FLYING MACHINE

“ SINHAGIRI YATHRA “

THIS “ SINHAGIRI YATHRA “ FLYING MACHINE WORKS WITH WIND POWER .AS YOU CAN SEE WIND COMES THROUG THE FRONT FAN WINGS INTO THE MACHINE.THEN IT GOSE TO THE BLOWER PART THEN TO THE BATTERY SYSTEM .THIS BETTERY SYSTEM MAKE SOME CURRENT AND GIVES IT TO THE MAIN ENGINS LOCATED BESIDE THE BETTERY SYSTEM .

THAT POWER HELPS TO WORK LEFT AND RIGHT WINGS.IN OTHER SIDE BATTERY POWER GOES TO THE TAIL PART AND GIVES POWER TO WORK THE TAIL WING.

WINGS ARE MADE WITH LEATHER AND THE BODY PART COVERD WITH IORN COVER.

BATTERY TECHNOLOGY THAT USED TO GIVE CURRENT TO ‘ SINHAGIRI YATHRA ‘

THIS BATTERY SYSTEM KNOWN AS “BAGHDAD BATTERY “IT USED BY ANCIENT EGYPTIAN PEOPLE.IT’S A NATURAL CLAY MADE SEALED POT

SIGIRIYA LIONS GATERECREATED SKETCH

OLD SIGIRIYA ROCK FORTRESS

SOME LOGO DESIGNS THAT I DID REGARDING THIS RECREATING SIGIRA PROJECT..

THANKYOU

CHAMODI WAIDYATHILAKA