Mediaeval Sinhalese Art c18.s2.26

c18.s2.26

∗ “*Mutilated as they invariably are in many important parts, almost every line of them is not only disfigured by gross errors, perpetuated by a succession of ignorant transcribers, but the technical terms and memorial verses with which the whole abounds, are so little understood either by the artists or the pundits of the present day, that it requires no ordinary exertion to comprehend and explain the exact import of even a single section.*”—Ram Raz, ‘Essay on the Architecture of the Hindus,’ London, 1834, p. 3.