Not even one drob of water must flow into the ocean with out being useful to man declaved parakramabahu the Great in the 12 th century This3.5metre [11 1/2 foot] rock sculpture of a baveefoot man cld only in what appears to be asarong. believed to be that of the great king.The statue is tuated just north of the town of polonnarawa nerar the eastern banka of the king s gratest achievement,the parakrma samudra [sea of parakrama] This man -madethank .covers an arwaof6,000 acres[2,430nectares ]and supplies water to a vast area and minar tanks. But there is another school of thougnt that this status is that of asege holding a stacr of manu scripts.


