[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Architecture and art](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art) › [Mediaeval Sinhalese Art](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.coomaraswamy-1908) › c19.6 # Mediaeval Sinhalese Art c19.6 Mediaeval Sinhalese Art c19.6 - **Language:** English ### [c19.6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.coomaraswamy-1908.c19.6) Black (\*kalu pāṭa\*).—This is lamp-black, to make which, jak-milk (\*kos-kiri\*, i.e. juice from the fruit of \*Artocarpus integrifolia\*), \*keḳuna\* oil (oil of \*Canarium zeylanicum\*), and rosin (\*hal-dummala\*, from the \*hāl\*-tree, \*Vateria acuminata\*) are ground up together and mixed with shreds of cotton cloth, then set over a small fire in a clean earthen pot with a second pot inverted above it. The soot is deposited in the upper pot and thence collected. Its oily nature makes it difficult to mix with water. - [Previous: c19.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.coomaraswamy-1908.c19.5) - [Next: c19.7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.coomaraswamy-1908.c19.7) - [Up: c19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.coomaraswamy-1908.c19) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.coomaraswamy-1908.c19.6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.coomaraswamy-1908.c19.6) · Pramāṇa