One of the most striking features in Polonnaruwa is the vast Parakrama Samudra (Sea of Parakramabahu) an irrigation tank build, as the name indicates by King Parakramabahu the great.
Lake Parakrama forms one of the larger reservoirs of an ancient (reservoir with a surface area of 22.6 km2) and sophisticated water storage system for the irrigation of rice fields in Srilanka.
Lake Parakrama forms one of the larger reservoirs of an ancient (reservoir with a surface area of 22.6 km2) and sophisticated water storage system for the irrigation of rice fields in Srilanka.
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