The Palace of Parakramabahu I is the royal palace built by King Parakramabahu the Great (1153-1186 A.D.) within the Citadel of the Polonnaruwa.
Palace of Parakramabahu I (Polonnaruwa) P alace of Parakramabahu I , also known as Vaijayantha Prasada or Vijayotpaya (Sinhala: පොළොන්නරුව මහාපරාක්රමබාහු මාළිගය), is the royal palace built by King Parakramabahu the Great (1153-1186 A.D.) within the Citadel of the Ancient City of Polonnaruwa , Sri Lanka (Wickramagamage, 2004). It is considered one of the tallest occupied buildings in the medieval world (Ranaweera et al., 2017). History Parakramabahu built this palace and named it Vaijayantha Prasada after the abode of the Vedic god Indra [(King of gods, Sakra) Nicholas, 1963; Ranaweera et al., 2017; Seneviratna, 1998]. The adoption of this name indicates that there was a need to secure the concept that the king and god were equal. According to the description in the chronicle Culavamsa, this palace was a seven-storied edifice with one thousand chambers (Nicholas, 1963; Ranaweera et al., 2017; Seneviratna, 1998). Also, it was adorned with many hundreds of pillars painted in different colours. Although the chronicles give an exa…
