Mediaeval Sinhalese Art c19.69

c19.69

“And for seven days the lord of the land held this great feast in honour of the three sacred objects (Buddha, the Law, and the Church) in such a manner as if he were showing here (on earth) how even the chief of the gods held the feasts of Buddha in heaven, and as if he proclaimed how the kings of the olden time, the great rulers of the Sinhalese, held their feasts in honour of the Supreme Buddha, and as if he proclaimed to all men how the perfections of the Omniscient Buddha, like unto the wish-conferring tree of heaven, yield fruit in and out of every season.