Artifacts, Yapahuwa, Sri Lanka.

The 'Chinese Lion'.

Dancers carved in stone.

Dancers.

Musicians.

Note the idealized female figure of the 12th Century - Large breasts, narrow waists and wide hips.

Artifacts at Yapahuwa, Sri Lanka.

Base of a stone pillar

Coming down from the rock, Yapahuwa, Sri Lanka.

In sylvan surroundings while climbing down.

A series of holes has been bored into the side of a granite hillock. This could be the remnant of an old technology to break the rock. A series of holes were made into the granite. Wooden pegs were then hammered into the holes. Water was poured onto the wooden pegs. The wooden pegs would soak up the water swell up and break the rock in a cleavage plane. The work on the rock has apparently been abandoned.

Foundations of a ruined building.

Coming down from the top, Yapahuwa, Sri Lanka.

A view of the countryside.

A medicinal plant.

Stone stairway.

An old baked clay brick.

The top of the Yapahuwa rock, Sri Lanka.

Stone slab to offer flowers - 'Mal-aasana'.

The 'Chaitya'

Foot-path around the top of the rock.

The ruins at the top of the rock are a Chaithya, floor of the building which housed the Sacred Tooth Relic, and a pond cut into the rock.