Gardens of Sri Lanka

Gardens of Sri Lanka by Senaka Bandaranayake. Sri Lanka takes its place in Asian garden history not only by virtue of its chronicle accounts, inscriptional records and literary descriptions of gardens and natural environments, but even more so on account of the unique survival of the archaeological remains of many planned garden forms, especially from time horizons earlier than those of surviving historic gardens in other South Asian societies and cultures. The Sri Lankan relict gardens are an archaeological phenomenon little seen elsewhere in Asia from a period prior to the 13th century. Following the journey proposed by Klaus Holzhausen and the authors of this volume, one goes from surprise to surprise.