Wednesday, May 04, 2005

Anuradhapura


Anuradhapura
Originally uploaded by mayavi.

This is Anuradhapura - one of UNESCO's world heritage site. This is the closest you can get (unless u want to take some risk) to the tamilians part of Sri Lanka. You could see the influence of the buddhism in this part of the country. It is a errily calm place and it was late evening when we finished our visit here. In a buddhist temple, you can see structures called the Dagobas - these are closed inverted bell shaped structures with no entrance or anything. They are supposed to contain relics of buddha and buddhist saints. Anuradhapura was founded in 5th century B.C and is the first capital city. It is amazing fact that the city's reservoir systems that supply water are considered complex engineering designs till day. It is an example of clearly envisioned city built by great human minds thus reiterating my belief once again in the line - " The key to our future lies in pur past" !!
Anuradhapura is an example!

4 comments:

Monicaatje said...

Curious... It almost seems like a catholic church, it's like there's only the cross missing on the top and I guess every catholic in the world would've thought that was the place they were supposed to go for their prayers... How can just one symbol make such a big difference?
Great shot! and... can I hear more about the reservoir system later?

PS: the above statement about church does not necessarily reflect my own thought about the topic :P

Enchanted Mind said...

Just that this whole structure does not have an entrance anywhere....Its just a huge structure !!!

Monicaatje said...

Hm.... waht's inside of it? Or.... is it empty? is it compact?
:S

Enchanted Mind said...

I guess theres nothing inside it at all !!! :-) Probably, the relics contains the body of the buddhist saints themselves....