Mediaeval Sinhalese Art c11.s1.40
Mediaeval Sinhalese Art c11.s1.40
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c11.s1.40
MRIGA. The deer is rarely found in decoration. One appears amongst the flowers in the ceiling painting just referred to. They are found sometimes on kalala mats. In jātakas and other romantic stories they are often introduced. The word mriga has also a general sense, referring to any animal, just as the very word deer itself did in old English; for this, see simha and verses from the Rūpāvaliya, quoted above, p. 87.