The most photographed place in Sigiriya is the wall with frescos. One can find these drawings after passing the mirror wall. The drawings were done by using extracts of trees with different colors. The colors are still possible to distinguish even after 1500 years. The drawings are done on a clay layer paste to the rock. The frescos show women holding lotus flower and adorned with garlands, wristlets and bangles. There are many rumors about these frescos, in addition to the historical records. Among them the most famous story says that the frescos were drawn by the King Kashyapa himself. And the girls in these frescos were his maids who were returning to the rock after having a bath in a near by pond. And some say that these girls were visiting a temple near by called ‘Pidurangala’, which is the temple devoted for the Sigiriya and it is still exist. The most of the frescos were there are now destroyed with time. However, a few of them are available to date. One can find the clearer frescos only one place in the rock. However, similarly drawn ones can be found in most of the places in the rock which can be barely seen dury heavy deterioration. Careful observer would find that the girls in these pictures are not only origin of Srl lanka. One can find girls having faces resembling African nature, Mongolian origin and also Indian. The rumor says that the king was very rich and he spent a lot of money to bring down these maids from other countries through merchants. These are good evidence to conclude that we Sri Lankans were very rich among other countries during that time. The wealth posses by the kings were enormous.
