A long time ago a king called dhatusena ruled in Anuradapura, He had two sons named moggalana and kasyapa. kasyapa was younger than moggalana but he wanted to become king first, so he killed his father and became king. Moggalana was very, he wanted to kill kasyapa and become king. So kasyapa ran away from anuradapura and built a beautiful palace on top of a rock so that nobody could catch him and kill him. This rock was called sigiriya. He built many beautiful byildings on sigiriya and painted beautiful pictures on the sides of the rock. Even now we can see some of these pictures and some ruins of the buildings.
