Gallery
Polonnaruwa
The second capital, and the high point of Sinhalese sculpture and hydraulic engineering.
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Gal Vihara — four Buddha images cut from a single granite face. Balou46 · CC BY-SA 3.0 -
The Vatadage, the finest surviving circular relic house. Simon Frost · CC BY-SA 2.0 -
Parakrama Samudra, a reservoir of some 22 square kilometres. Naveendridesilva · CC BY-SA 4.0 -
The Lankatilaka image house, its walls four metres thick. Bernard Gagnon · CC BY-SA 3.0 -
Rankoth Vehera, built under Nissanka Malla in the Anuradhapura idiom. Z thomas · CC BY-SA 4.0 -
The rock-cut figure at Potgul Vihara, traditionally identified as Parakramabahu I. Jerzy Strzelecki · CC BY 3.0