Mediaeval Sinhalese Art c15.39

c15.39

*Bridges* I am not acquainted with any remains of Kandyan wooden bridges of any importance. I quote, however, from the Mahāvamsa (Ch. LXX.) an account of one built over the river Kāḷavāpi by the General Deva-Senāpati by command of King Parākrama Bāhu I.; it was “a bridge of timber, two hundred cubits in length and twenty cubits in breadth, fastened *Bridges*