Friday, February 18, 2022
Rock, Poetry, Buddhism
12-Century-Old Graffiti
https://jacquescoulardeau.medium.com/12-century-old-graffiti-56419267dd37
It
is worth a climb & a trip to the top of both Sigiriya & Pidurangala
Rocks. These rocks are heavy with history & with spiritual value. A great
number of pilgrims came here for centuries in the past From Kasyapa's time (4th
century) to colonial times (independance 70 years ago) and now throngs of
curious tourists from all over the world are converging every year to this rock
and its painted ladies known as the Asparas of King Kasyapa. They have been the
object of a debate on their carnal or spiritual or even artistic value, but the
graffiti going along with them is a many-century-old tradition in Sigiriya and
these Sinhala poems are worth a tremendous value in heritage and culture.
