Mediaeval Sinhalese Art c15.26

c15.26

Doors were framed wooden structures, fitted and pegged together, and built into the *Doors* substance of the wall; but some vihāras had door-frames of stone. The doors were either one or two-leaved, having tenons above and below, turning in sockets in the frame; hinges are very rarely seen in old work. The parts of a complete door and frame included the two *uluvahu-kaṇu* or *kaṇḍa* (door posts), *paḍi-kaṇḍa* (threshold), *haras-kaḍaya* (lintel), *bā-paṭa* (horizontal plank at lintel level, to carry upper tenon of leaf), *agul-kaṇuva* (‘bolt-post,’ upright carrying wood bolt), *agula* (bolt), and the door leaf itself (*dora hiṭina lella*). An additional horizontal, above the *haras-kaḍaya* and between an upward extension of the jambs, is called *uttara lella*, and is generally decorated.