Mediaeval Sinhalese Art c18.s2.13

c18.s2.13

Of the great series of works composing collectively the *Silpa Śastra*, or Science of the Arts, very little is at present known. The measurements given in the second part of Sāriputra are those usually met with in the parts of these works which deal with images. To illustrate this point, and to present more clearly the chief peculiarities of the canon, the following table of some of the principal measurements is prepared, the numbers being given in ‘inches’ (*aṅgal*):