Mediaeval Sinhalese Art c15.47

c15.47

The foregoing observations on architectural woodwork have a general application to all buildings, such as vihāras, dēvāles, palaces, and ambalams, in the construction of which craftsmen are concerned, but only in a much reduced form to ordinary dwelling houses, which each man made for himself. These were constructed of smaller timber tied with jungle ropes, and the walls of wattle and daub, the roof thatched.