Mediaeval Sinhalese Art c20.s1.3

c20.s1.3

*Painting* assurances as a tail-piece; on the verso of same are the seven scenes of the *sat-satiya* or seven weeks’ fast of Buddha, the last four of which are shown on Pl. XVIII.; the next leaf bears a note to the effect that a priest named Parakumbure Vipassi inherited the book, and on the back, above, a picture of Buddha besought by Mahā Brahma to reveal the Dharma, and below, of Buddha preaching *baṇa* for the first time in Isipatana Ārāma at Benāres; the next leaf shows Buddha preaching (Pl. XIX.), walking and standing; the next, the holy footstep, and Buddha reclining; and a scene from the Daham Soṇḍa Jātaka; the next leaf contains the colophon, and the last, like the first, is blank.