Mediaeval Sinhalese Art c11.s1.20

c11.s1.20

“The expert painter should know a further sixteen kinds, beside those already mentioned, Design and the lion, the dog, and the fowl, the deer, the serpent, the elephant, the cat, the fox, the ornament goat, the goat-faced animal, the horse, the monkey, the ass, the *mṛigendra* (=a lion), the tiger, the shark.” Simha “Of the four lions (proper), Tṛiṇa, Kāla, Pāṇḍu and Kēsarī, the Kēsarī is the highest.” “The lion has eyes like those of a hare, a fierce look, soft hair, long hair on the chest and under the shoulders, back plump like a sheep’s, the body of a well blooded horse, a stately walk, and a long tail.”