{"id":25,"date":"2023-08-15T06:46:15","date_gmt":"2023-08-15T06:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dhlyrics.com\/?p=25"},"modified":"2026-05-23T01:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T01:50:10","slug":"%e0%b7%83%e0%b7%93%e0%b6%9c%e0%b7%92%e0%b6%bb%e0%b7%92-%e0%b6%9c%e0%b7%93%e0%b6%ad%e0%b6%ba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dhlyrics.com\/?p=25","title":{"rendered":"Song of Sigiriya (Ashoka wanaye)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the forest blooming with Ashoka flowers,<br>There are ripened fruits \u2014 bring them to me.<br>In the outer moat of Sigiriya,<br>Water lilies bloom \u2014 gather them for me to wear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Come to Sigiriya\u2026<br>Come in secret.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As long as the Ravana-hastha harp is played,<br>As long as the Sinhala drums resound,<br>Until the break of dawn,<br>I can dance \u2014<br>I shall never grow weary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And when, in the morning,<br>The conch of the kingdom\u2019s victory begins to echo,<br>And the Hevisi drums begin to thunder,<br>Then softly, without a sound upon the stone steps,<br>Let us descend together<br>And make our way to the temple of Pidurangala.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"asoka wanaye\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lIFKqXdQnAk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the forest blooming with Ashoka flowers,There are ripened fruits \u2014 bring them to me.In the outer moat of Sigiriya,Water lilies bloom \u2014 gather them for me to wear. Come to Sigiriya\u2026Come in secret. As long as the Ravana-hastha harp is played,As long as the Sinhala drums resound,Until the break of dawn,I can dance \u2014I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,27,19],"tags":[6,17,18],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-historysong","category-ravanabrotherssongs","category-ravanadehena","tag-dhammika-hettiarachchi","tag-manoj-alawathukotuwa","tag-pradeep-muthukudarachchi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhlyrics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhlyrics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhlyrics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhlyrics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhlyrics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dhlyrics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":825,"href":"https:\/\/dhlyrics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions\/825"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhlyrics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhlyrics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhlyrics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhlyrics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}