Thank you very much for sharing this video. I was not able to go up the rock and you really gave me the sense of like "being there" that I love. I really enjoyed your questioning style and your attention to details. I was on a group tour and would not have had the luxury of that much time anyway. I will share your video with the others. Thank you again!

Love the video. Thank you for respecting and teaching the world about Ancient Sri Lanka

Absolutely breath taking!

Awesome! Thanks for the subtitles. Amazing how many places there are like this all over the world!! Great stuff, Thanks again.

maybe there were hanging gardens above the pool that fed off it as an ancient hydroponic system and the stairs led up to a platform of the plants that has since been destroyed. I have seen in other videos on that rock top evidence of farming around the pool and maybe the pool was used for certain plant strains. Some of the brick walls around the pool seemed partially crumbled and were part of more structure as hypothesized by a previous commentor.

King Kashyapa was known to be a player. He loved his women. A walk thru Sigiriya and you would notice alot of points that proves this fact. It's either he had concubines up the stairs dancing and what not or he had his guards. He did live in fear. The throne was not rightfully his to keep

Thank you for the detailed information. Being a Sri Lankan I myself d was not aware of these facts.. Sigiriya could be consideredas

If you go in a rainy day you can see some of the water fountains in the bottom of the rock still working which is probably from the excess water.

beautifully built. The difficulty of carving a rock as hard as granite is extreme w/ ancient copper chisels & rock hammers but there are examples of this being done. They had a predesigned plan & acomplished it. What would interest me is how long did it take, was the whole pool basin polished and are there any tool marks on the inside to indicate the techniques/tool types used.

@Calligraphy-dilipaweeratunga13

5 жыл бұрын

There are chisel marks (can be clearely seen in the dry seaon)but strangely those chisel marks are continues like being scooped or being cut by a machine .

I think you'll find that the "pool" was made by a much older civilisation and then built on by younger ones. The younger generation may not of known what it was used for and maybe over the thousands of years earthquakes may have demolished the main buildings. I reckon the original civilisation was around 10,500 to 15,000 years ago and may have been wiped out in the Younger Dryas period.

@More-Space-In-Ear

7 жыл бұрын

***** you never know... ;)

@thukiyapaatham3309

7 жыл бұрын

it belongs to the old "first sangam" period (9600 BCE to 5200 BCE) pandiyan empire of KUMARI KANDAM CIVILIZATION !! Old Tamil Literature talks about it. Most of the kumari kandam land lost during the last ice age and under water now.

@thukiyapaatham3309

7 жыл бұрын

search for sangam literature. search detail of 1st, 2nd and 3rd Tamil sangam. if you need proof.

@annefiftythree

7 жыл бұрын

@ thukiya paatham: thank you for the information. I check it very briefly and indeed, there is more to it. Pandyan dynasty points me to Pangea, in other words, to our planet before the very first inundation and cataclysm of the last 12.000 years :-) I assume that you know that Shiva, the destroyer and transformer, is de facto Jupiter as a planet, whereas Indra was Jupiter as our (now extinct) binary brown dwarf.

wow what a place!

I hope it's really good. and useful for students

The steps lead to the top of the water slide, the granite was probably polished back then

Incredibile !

It seems obvious to me that the steps went up to the water slides :)

Ancient water park? slides and jumping platforms. :-D

Wow never knew about that

History of Sigiriya Sigiriya may be the kingdom of Ravana who ruled the country maybe 3000 years ago. Rama from India defeated Ravana. Ravana was a undefeatable man. He can be defeated only with a particular weapon of Ravana. But who gave that weapon to Rama to kill Ravana and to destroy the entire kingdom? As the weapon belonged to Ravana Ravana´s stepbrother Wibhishana stole it and gave to Rama. So Rama killed Ravana. It is considered Sigiriya was the kingdom of RAWANA. Some believe that Ravana built the Sigiriya. After that Buddhist monk may have stayed there. After maybe 2000+ years of Ravana, Sigiri Kashyapa developed the Sigiriya as his own Kingdom in the 5th century AD. Kashyapa was the first son of the King Dathusena. However, the king wanted to pass the reign to his royal son, (second son Mugalan). Kashyapa was the first son but his mother was not from a royal family. To be fair to the King Dathusena, the royal advisors forced to have a Royal Concubine to strengthen his reign. Because the Kingdom was not stable after an invasion from the South India. Dathusena was the King who defeated the invasion by the South India. Before Dathusena, there were six south Indian kings (invaders) who ruled the country from Anuradhapura. However, due to a conspiracy by Migara who was the son of the sister of the King Dathusena, Kashyapa had to kill his father and took the crown by force. Migara, who was the Army Commander of the King Dathusena´s Army had a vengeance against the King because the King ordered to kill Dathusena´s own sister (Migara´s mother) as she was involved in a conspiracy to oust the King Dathusena. After understanding the death of Migara´s mother, his father also died due to a heart attack. Migara´s father was also a member of the conspiracy. Migara was married to the daughter of Dathusena. However, this daughter also (Kashyapa´s own sister) was from his first marriage, which took place before he became the King. The marriage between Migara and Dathusena´s daughter was not successful. There was also a feud between Migara´s mother and Daughter of Dathusena. Migara and his mother harresd Dathusena´s daughter. Both Dathsena and Kashyapa wanted to build another palace in Sigiriya. However, due to financial issues, Dathusena gave up the idea but Kashyapa did not. At the beginning, Kashyapa did not have an intention to become a king by killing his father because he knew that Mugalan was the right owner to the crown. Migara told Kashyapa if Kashyapa wanted to build the Palace on top of the Sigiriya, he had to become the King. Kashyapa believed it and he ousted the King Dathusena by force. But when he wanted to build the palace there was not enough money in the treasury. He asked for money from the deposed king Dathusena. As a part of Conspiracy, Migara told Kashyapa that there should be a great treasure of King Dathusena, who may have hidden it for Mugalan. Kashyapa believed it without knowing that it was a part of a conspiracy to kill Dathusena by Migara to get his vengeance fulfilled. The king Dathusena had built 18 large reservoirs and 18 large canals for irrigation and agriculture. These reservoirs and canals exist and function today itself doing great service to the country. Due to these reasons, there may not be enough money to build a new palace on top of the Sigiriya Rock. Due to unbearable harassments, Dathusena, the deposed king agreed to show the treasure by himself. Then Dathusena went to the Kalawewa (his largest reservoir) and showed that the reservoir was his only treasure. Migara knew perfectly there was no money in the king´s treasury but his all intention was to kill Dathusena he pretended a kind of fake anger and ordered to kill the deposed King Dathusena by walling him alive into the reservoir bund. By this time Kashyapa had have given full authority to Migara to do what he wanted to find the wealth of Dathusena. Kashyapa was so sick of finding money. On the other hand, Kashyapa also had a sort envy against the King Dathusena because Kashyapa may have felt ill-treated after Dathusena deserted the kashyapa´s mother. Dathusena invited Kashyapa´s mother to go to the place but she did not agree to go to the palace as she did not accept Dathusena´s second marriage. However, after killing his own father, Kashyapa withdrew from the Anuradhapura Kingdom and located his palace on top of the Sigiriya. The great irony was by the time of Dathusen´s death, merchants who did trades with India, Greece, China and old middle east countries had agreed to incur the total cost of the construction of the palace on the top of Sigiriya. Migara did not want the king to believe merchants as the intention of Migar was different. Migara tried to convince the King Kashyapa that the merchants might not be able to incur the cost of the palace. However, the King tried both options, either to find the treasure of Dathusena or sponsorship of merchants. At the end, King Kashyapa built the palace on top of the Sigiriya Rock. Mugalan went to India and returned after 20 years with an army from India to fight against Kashyapa. The fight started at the foot of the Sigiriya. During the battle, Kashyapa wanted to change his root tactically. However, Kashyapa´s Army assumed that the King was running away from the battle and the army too withdrew from the battle. Kashyapa was isolated and he had to commit suicide with his own sword. Then Mugalan took the crown and established his Kingdom again in Anuradhapura.

@vijayafernando1

6 жыл бұрын

Ruwan Sampath Hindu Philosophy talks of "Yugas" . These Yugas span millions of years. Hindu Philosophy also has different definition of animals:it does not make a distinction in the way that Judaeo Christians do between humans and animals. if that belief is followed are we looking at a civilisation that spans many more years than what we recognise?

@ruwansampathd

6 жыл бұрын

Definitely, the civilization in Sri Lanka is much older than 2500 years of written history.

I think is more likely a natural pool and they build around it.

it was not solid rock when it was made. its like concrete or cement that solidified

ooops - ignore, comment below. did it before the subtitles came on the screen! thank you!

на что вы снимали?

how deep is the pool?

Студия Elmucon. Автор Praveen Mohan индия. Тоже интересно об этом объекте рассказывает. Уровни обороны Сигирии Часть 1

They had to add to the walls , to make the pool bigger as the local population increased. You control the population with controlling the potable water supply .

Nice

the stairs lead to life gaurd station just like at our pools

would it be possible to give a summary of the commentary in English, please!

Haha this was built by king ka Kashapa not a mythical person he's a real dude the legend says he wanted to build his palace better than heaven so his workers carved a really big rock like a lion and it was his fortress also there are fountains in the garden

thank you 5 20 2018

@billysewardgardening

8 жыл бұрын

+Vladimir KovalSky the steps are different sizes b/c they are for different sized creatures to use them. the 3 claws on the 'lions' feet are reptile claws not lions. it is the same create depicted in the mayan painting of that demon looking thing eating human hearts. same 3 claws. the british spent 60 years here destroying stuff stealing stuff and removing ancient original paintings. there is a cave between the claws that has been hidden goes to the reptilian underworld

thank you . what country? there were other stairways in the distance you showed briefly.. I feel all were for carved deities. this is a sacred spring. for ritual bathing I feel.- it is high above sea level.

@bestsri1

5 жыл бұрын

sri lanka sigiriya

the steps are leading to heaven

Great vids and blogs, subscribed. That rock supported by 'columns' ... defies common sense ... and dismantles official history. You sure it weights 2300 t? In many places around the globe, including Giza, most ancient work is also most advanced, huge megaliths perfectly fit ... and less advanced work afterwards. Same apparently applies here at the pool (those steps probably lead somewhere initially). I have lots to share too, same topic (Yonaguni, Gornaya Shoria, Planet Mars ...) and much more ... on my channel

Thank you, both,. remarkable , given the tools available at the time, Or was help from aliens,as suggested in other great stone workings ??

@CaptainMorganxxx

9 жыл бұрын

This would probably not seem to most visitors to be anything unusual, but I know having been working in stone some years go, that cutting this volume of granit rock. is mind blowing.. With the tools of the age, I just do not know how it was done.

As anyone been able to put a date on the original construction,/?and who by i wonder.

@dakshinasd

9 жыл бұрын

It's believed to be constructed on 5 A.D

@CaptainMorganxxx

9 жыл бұрын

Did they have Electric chisels or lasers in 5 A.D. ????

@sakandax2340

9 жыл бұрын

Captain Morgan built by King Kashyapa

@SasukeUchiha-dm3kw

5 жыл бұрын

This has been renovated by a local king around 1500 years ago but some say the oldest construction date backs to 4500 to 6000 years back according to Carbon dating. It's harder to say because there were many groups of early Humans who were there and used this place as a fortress.

Stairs leading to platforms? Life Guard 'towers.' :-)

Is this King Ravanas Palace Sri Lanka .?

@monikahemali2837

8 жыл бұрын

No its called Sigiriya

@rufaikfarook1430

8 жыл бұрын

No. It is the palace of king Kasyapa. He called this Lion Rock (sinhagiriya/Sigiriya).

@kalegana

4 жыл бұрын

It's a modern myth. This is the rock castle of King Kasyapa. Ravana's castle whereabouts are unknown .

maybe this was like a hang out spot for males to come and relax and the steps that lead up to nothing was a podium for a stripper girl with beautiful body for them to watch dancing lol!

I take it that this property is not for sale......;)))))

@saradykim3970

9 жыл бұрын

magnifique petite coin!

@bcbconklin

8 жыл бұрын

everything has a price...

a lot going on here