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Sigiri Graffiti

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 SIGIRI GRAFFITI
PRICELESS SPIRITUAL HERITAGE
FROM YESTERDAY’S HUMANITY
TO THE HUMANITY OF TOMORROW

Diyakapilla, October 5, 2005

Olliergues, December 27-31, 2005
After Sri Lanka's King Kasyapa’s fall in 495 CE, Sigiriya
goes back to being religious probably with pilgrimages. Many
visitors are proved and documented. Inside the Mirror Wall covered
with a special lustrous plaster, all along the gallery under the
frescoes, between the 9th and the 13th centuries, essentially between
the 9th and 11th centuries, visitors inscribed small poems in
traditional form composed of two or four lines in full agreement with
contemporary poetics. Note this confirms a high educational level
among the visitors. These small poems known as the Sigiri Graffiti
are most of the time signed and we thus can know the names and
social positions of their authors. There are about 1,200 poems of
which about 900 have been published: 685 by Dr S. Paranavitana in
1956 and 150 in 1990 and 1994 by Benille Priyanka who is working
on the remaining 300 or so. In the following selection I used the
year of publication, 56, 90 and 94, and the number in these
publications to identify them.
This is a translation in English and in French of a selection of
Sigiri Graffiti.

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