Mediaeval Sinhalese Art c13.26

c13.26

* We are strongly reminded of the old Irish ‘brugaid,’ an official who “was a public hospitaller as well as a magistrate . . . and was held in high honour. He was bound to keep an open house for the reception of certain functionaries . . . and also for the reception of strangers. He had a tract of land and other large allowances to defray the expenses of his house” (Joyce, ‘Social History of Ancient Ireland’).