Sri Lanka, the Resplendent Isle |
Contents
THE NATIVE PILOT NATURE | 179 |
Children of the lion The textures of daily life Dancers and drummers | 187 |
Of temples reservoirs and dynasties The culinary blowtorch Lifes recreation | 197 |
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actual ancient Anuradhapura appears arrived beautiful become begins British Buddha Buddhist building called capital carried caste century ceremony Ceylon Coast coconut Colombo colour comes completely course culture curry dance dancers double drums Dutch Dutugemunu early East Elara elephants face fact famous festival Following forest grow hands hill Hindu hundred Indian island Jaffna jungle Kandy Kandyan keep King kingdom kovil land later less live look matter means monks Muslims natural never once original passed Perahera performance perhaps played Polonnaruwa Portuguese procession Reign remains represent rest result returned rice rule Sariputra Sinhalese Sinharaja soon sort South Sri Lanka stands stone story Tamil temple things traditional tree turning usually village visitors Western young