Mediaeval Sinhalese Art c15.45

c15.45

and made exceeding strong with plates of iron and pegs,—a bridge of exceeding great beauty, that could be passed by elephants and horses and chariots and footmen.” The simplest form of wooden bridge (*eḍaṇḍa*) now everywhere seen is a single tree-trunk passing from bank to bank of a small stream. If the stream is too wide to be spanned by a single trunk, piles are driven and two or more trunks laid across them.