INTRODUCTION 1. SIGIRI, ITS HISTORY AND DESCRIPTION 1. THE rugged mass of granite forming the rock of Sigiri(1 Sigiri is in the Inämaluve Köra!é of the Mätalé District, and the road to it branches off from the Kandy—Trincomalee trunk road between its 50th and 51st mile-posts. B 597 ) rises, with unscalable, precipitous sides, to a height of 1,193 feet above mean sea-level—nearly 600 feet above the surrounding plain. In the fifth century, in consequence of a series of violent

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